Bug Squad

A daily (M-F) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008 and about the wonderful world of insects and those who study them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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BLUE SKY, a field of golden mustard and gleaming white hives--it's a picture-perfect day at the Olivarez Honey Bees' farm in Orland, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Picture-Perfect Day at a Bee Farm

April 2, 2010
Picture this. It's a picture-perfect day on Thursday, April 1 at Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc. in Orland, Calif. Susan Cobey's queen bee-rearing class at the University of California, Davis, is touring the bee farm with guide Ray Olivarez Jr.
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HONEY BEE foraging on mustard at Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc., Orland, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Cutting the Mustard

April 1, 2010
A golden bee on golden mustard. What could represent spring in California more than that? Well, besides the just-ended almond pollination season. Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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BEE BREEDER-GENETICIST Susan Cobey (left) shows a hive to the students in her queen bee-rearing class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Rearing Queen Bees

March 31, 2010
It wouldn't dare rain on Susan Cobey's queen bee-rearing classes. And it didn't today. Well, a little sprinkle, but that was it. Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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HONEY BEE lies still on a white calla lily in the Carolee Shields White Flower Garden at the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Death on a Calla Lily

March 30, 2010
It probably wasn't colony collapse disorder. Probably not pesticides, a disease, malnutrition or stress, either. It could have been a pest.
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FIRST SPEAKER--Julien Pelletier, a postdoctoral scholar in the Walter Leal chemical ecology lab at UC Davis, is the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology spring seminar series. His topic: "Mining the Genome for Olfactory Proteins." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bugs, Bugs & Bugs

March 29, 2010
If spring has sprung--and it has--it's also time to spring forward the next batch of noonhour seminars at the UC Davis Department of Entomology. The spring lectures are held every Wednesday, March 31 through May 26, from 12:10 to 1 p.m., in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Drive.
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