Bug Squad

Ever seen a bumble bee nest? We remember when insect enthusiast Rita LeRoy of the Loma Vista Farm, part of the Vallejo City Unified School District, found the nest of the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenkii, in May of 2015.

If you missed enrolling in the Wax Working, Honey and Hive Products, a first-of-its-kind class offered Saturday, Dec. 7 by the Elina Nio lab at the University of California, Davis, you're in luck--but not until spring. The Dec. 7th class is sold out.

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Society, is known for his expertise in chemistry, toxicology, biochemistry and entomology.

We are all saddened by the death of noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis.

We humans exhibit complex social behavior. So do honey bees. Honey bees exhibit complex social behavior that rivals our own, internationally recognized honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr.