
Bug Blog
Not the Honey!

How ironic. We recently wrote about Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists training honey bees to detect explosives. It works this way: they harness bees and place them in little scientific...
Honey Bee
All About Crickets

When the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, launches its winter noonhour seminar series on Wednesday, Jan. 6, crickets will be first in line. UC Riverside postdoctoral...
Mormon cricket
Bees Love This Late Bloomer

The swamp sunflower that graces the entrance to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis, does quadruple duty.It's stunningly beautiful. It's strong and...
Swamp Sunflower
Honey Bee
Buzzing Off
A Taste of Honey

Honey!Say that at the American Honey Producers' Association (AHPA) convention Jan. 5-9 in Sacramento, and it's not a term of endearment.It's an occupation, a calling and a passion. This is their...
Honeycomb
Bee Biology
A Victory for the Bees

It's being hailed by environmental groups as "a victory for the bees."A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the insecticide, spirotetramat, must be pulled from the shelves because it could be...
Newly emerged bee