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A honey bee with a huge pollen load heads for more mustard pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Cutting the Mustard

February 16, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Spring is the busiest time of year for honey bees, and their keepers, whether the operation is in the desert uplands of southern Arizona, the citrus groves of Florida, or the apple orchards of Washington state," writes entomologist/bee expert Stephen "Steve" Buchmann in his book, Honey Bees: Letter...
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Honey bee foraging on a pansy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Bee Mine

February 13, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
How to celebrate Valentine's Day? Well, without pollinators, we wouldn't be celebrating Valentine's Day as we know it. That box of chocolates? Give thanks to the midges that pollinated the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao.
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CASI Tent at World Ag Expo 2015 in Tulare
Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI involved in its 10th World Ag Expo in Tulare!

February 13, 2015
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Along with several other private sector, university and NRCS partners, the CASI Center once again took part in the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA this week and hosted a good number of guests at our well-positioned site that we have graciously been allowed to share with long-time CASI members, Alan Wilc...
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A honey bee queen on a finger. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Give Her Some Space

February 12, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you see a news story about "honey bees" in a newspaper or magazine, odds are you'll see it spelled as one word, "honeybees." That's because the Associated Press Stylebook, the journalists' "bible," spells it that way. So do dictionaries. However, in the entomological world, that's incorrect.
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Honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

From A (Almond) to B (Bee)

February 11, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
This is a story about honey bees, almonds and a Harvard gradate student who is passionate about pollinators. Stephanie Hsia, a master of landscape architecture candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), has just created a marvelous 46-page digital story, http://almondandbee.
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The queen and her court. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Honey Bee Scientist Amro Zayed at UC Davis Feb. 11

February 10, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
There's a lot of interest building in this seminar. Amro Zayed of the Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada, will speak on "Honey Bee Behavioral Genomics: Worker Behavior and Adaptation" from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11 in Room 122 of Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus.
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This tarantula was popular at the Bohart Museum on Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Good Day for Bugs!

February 9, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a good day for bugs. But isn't every day a good day for bugs? The Bohart Museum of Entomology on the University of California, Davis, campus, proved to be a good focal point last Sunday during the fourth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. It was one of six museums being showcased.
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