Bug Blog
Behold, the Gold!
When you visit the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, be sure to check out the passionflower vine clinging to the fence. You'll see...
Valley carpenter bee foraging on a passion flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Note the golden pollen on the Valley carpenter bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ultimate Swarms
It was blazing hot that summer day in Winters, Calif. The date: July 22, 2012. The place: a sunfiower field in Winters, Calif. We watched as a BBC crew set up their cameras while professional bee...
Norm Gary's bee cluster in the middle of a sunflower field in Winters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
BBC crew sets up in a Winters' sunflower field, as Norm Gary sprays sugar water on his bee cluster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Now That's Huge!
The world's largest hornet (Vespa mandarinia) is huge. Just how huge? We photographed a two-inch specimen last week at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis. Among the insect...
The world's largest hornet next to a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Cause, Bee-Cause
It's The Cause. Bee-Cause. It's great to see the world's most renowned bee wrangler, Norm Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, come out of retirement to help out with a specific "UC...
Bee wrangler Norm Gary surrounded by bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A documentary crew prepares to film Norm Gary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Opening of the Hives
Thursday, Oct. 17 is Pest Management Day at UC Davis. That's when the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) partners with the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources for the...
Billy Synk, manager of the Ladilaw facility, shows comb to the crowd in the Laidlaw conference room. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors donned bee veils to examine the hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Billy Synk shows a frame to the visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of bees at work. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)