Test PB Collection: FTE

Unlike airplane pilots, honey bees don't file a flight plan. They know where they're going because their sisters tell them with their waggle dances. Pollen. Nectar. Propolis. All good. Bees seem to really like the pollen on rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora).

It was not a good day for a flower fly. A flower fly, aka syrphid fly, dropped down in a patch of pink roses at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis today to sip nectar. It was a pink-rose kind of day. Not for the flower fly, though. A crab spider, lying in wait, pounced.

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When we think about honey bees, we ought to think about the immune system. Understanding the honey bees immune system is crucial to battling the declining honey bee population, says University of California insect virus researcher Michelle Flenniken.

Early pests of rice: tadpole shrimp and rice seed midge...

Do you brake for wasps? We spotted a bumper sticker on the UC Davis campus the other day that read: "I brake for wasps." It was parked in the Briggs Hall loading zone--Briggs is the home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology--so I imagine it was braking for wasps right then and there.

Ladybugs, aka ladybird beetles, are out there. Walk through the garden and they're easy to find. Last weekend we spotted one tucked in the heart of an artichoke, another climbing a nectarine tree, and still another perched on an artichoke leaf.

Released May 23, 2011, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture...

"How are the bees doing?" That's the question beekeepers are asked all year. Well, today the annual survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) answered that question. The response? Roughly the same.

He died too soon, a life cut short by a disease he never knew he had. It happened 14 years ago tomorrow.