Posts Tagged: Apis mellifera

Battle Over the Lavender: Mine, All Mine!

A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is foraging on lavender in a Vacaville garden. Abruptly, the bumble bee senses a fast-approaching honey bee, Apis mellifera. Bombus: "Hey, bee, this is my territory, my...

A yellow-face bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is interrupted by a fast-approaching honey bee as it's nectaring on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-face bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is interrupted by a fast-approaching honey bee as it's nectaring on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's Friday Fly Day!

It's "Friday Fly Day," but no flies today. They're in a "no-fly zone." That's because of the freezing temperatures. Jack Frost is nipping at assorted noses, leaves are dropping like flies, and cups are overflowing with hot chocolate.  Meanwhile,...

Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee and a fly share a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Good Day for a Praying Mantis

It was a good day for a praying mantis. It was not a good day for a honey bee. Here's what happened in the "Daily Insect News": a gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, ambushed and ate a honey bee on a Mexican sunflower,...

A gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, dines on a honey bee in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, dines on a honey bee in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nissa Coit: Ethyl Oleate Pheromone and Honey Bees

Interested in honey bee research? Then you'll want to attend--or listen via Zoom--the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. Nissa Coit, a master's graduate student in the laboratory of...

Close-up of honey bees in a spring colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of honey bees in a spring colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Bee and the Butterfly

The bee and the butterfly.   Or, Apis mellifera and Colias eurytheme.   One's a beneficial insect. That would "bee" the honey bee. The other is a yellow and white butterfly, striking in appearance, but in its larval...

A sulphur butterfly, Colias eurytheme, and a honey bee, Apis mellifera, meet on lavender. The butterfly is a male, as identified by Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A sulphur butterfly, Colias eurytheme, and a honey bee, Apis mellifera, meet on lavender. The butterfly is a male, as identified by Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hey, bee, I was here first! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hey, bee, I was here first! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hey, butterfly! I was here second. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hey, butterfly! I was here second. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The male butterfly, leery of the encroaching bee, takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The male butterfly, leery of the encroaching bee, takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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