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So, You Want to Become a Beekeeper...

So you want to become a beekeeper... You want to do your part to help the declining bee population. You want to learn about the honey bees that pollinate the food you eat, including fruits, vegetables and nuts (especially almonds!). You'd love some...

Worker bees and queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Worker bees and queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Worker bees and queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A drone (male bee) emerging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A drone (male bee) emerging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A drone (male bee) emerging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Find the queen! This photo of Italian honey bees was taken at  Jackie Burris-Parks Queens, Palo Cedro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Find the queen! This photo of Italian honey bees was taken at Jackie Burris-Parks Queens, Palo Cedro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Find the queen! This photo of Italian honey bees was taken at Jackie Burris-Parks Queens, Palo Cedro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 3:53 PM

A Very Tiny Bee

At first glance, it appeared to be a gnat circling our head. Then it landed on our passionflower vine (Passiflora). It cooperatively stayed still for a photo (taken with a Nikon D800 mounted with a 105mm macro lens) and then returned to its nest, a hole...

A tiny sweat bee, Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A tiny sweat bee, Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A tiny sweat bee, Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tiny sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a tiny sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tiny sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus, on a passionflower vine (Passiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 5:25 PM

The Bee Course

If you want to learn about bees--and learn it from the experts--The Bee Course is the place to be. It's an annual workshop held at the Southwestern Research Station (SWRS) in Portal, Ariz. for conservation biologists, pollination ecologists, and other...

Robbin Thorp (left) of UC Davis and John Ascher of the National University of Singapore are two of The Bee Course instructors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp (left) of UC Davis and John Ascher of the National University of Singapore are two of The Bee Course instructors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Robbin Thorp (left) of UC Davis and John Ascher of the National University of Singapore are two of The Bee Course instructors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Robbin Thorp at a UC Davis function with Emily Bzdyk,  who received her master's degree in entomology from UC Davis and is a graduate of The Bee Course. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp at a UC Davis function with Emily Bzdyk, who received her master's degree in entomology from UC Davis and is a graduate of The Bee Course. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Robbin Thorp at a UC Davis function with Emily Bzdyk, who received her master's degree in entomology from UC Davis and is a graduate of The Bee Course. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Friday, August 23, 2013 at 11:03 PM

Why This Is Bee Is Cuckoo

When you visit the half-acre Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven,  a bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, you might just see a cuckoo bee. The cuckoo bee (see below) is a male Triepeolus concavus, as...

A male cuckoo bee, Triepeolus concavus, on a blanket flower (Gaillardia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male cuckoo bee, Triepeolus concavus, on a blanket flower (Gaillardia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male cuckoo bee, Triepeolus concavus, on a blanket flower (Gaillardia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Male cuckoo bee sipping nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Male cuckoo bee sipping nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Male cuckoo bee sipping nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 8:40 PM

So Many Bees

Folks accustomed to seeing only honey bees (which are non-natives) buzzing around their yard probably aren't aware that in the United States alone there are some 4000 identified species of native bees.And they probably aren't aware of The Bee...

Yolo County Bee Collection
Yolo County Bee Collection

THIS COLLECTION of bees, by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, shows the wide diversity of bees in Yolo County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Metallic Green Sweat Bee
Metallic Green Sweat Bee

THIS is a male green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Cuckoo Bee
Cuckoo Bee

THIS is a cuckoo bee, probably the genus Triepeolus, maybe Epeolus, and probably a male (identification by Robbin Thorp). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sunflower Bee
Sunflower Bee

FEMALE SUNFLOWER BEE, Diadasia enavata, family Apidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Carpenter Bee
Carpenter Bee

THIS is a carpenter bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:33 PM

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