Undergraduate degree in genetics? Check. Masters degree in fine arts? Check. Scientist and artist? Check. Such is the case with scientist-artist Donna Billick, who created the Miss Bee Haven six-foot bee sculpture in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the University of California, Davis.
Collecting pollen and nectar is serious business. But when a native wild bee such as the Svastra obliqua expurgata, also called "the sunflower bee," forages on a Mexican hat flower, it adds a little gaiety to the scene.
When this insect flashes by you in your garden, at first glance you think: "Yellow jacket? Paper wasp? What's that?" Then it lands and you realize it's neither. It's a bee.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
