Posts Tagged: instrumental insemination

Improving Stock

Want to learn how to rear high-quality queen bees? Want to learn instrumental insemination of queen bees? Specialized classes, taught by bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, are scheduled next spring at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research...

Joy Pendell

QUEEN BEE INSEMINATION is intricate work. Here college student Joy Pendell of Pendell Apiaries, Stonybrook, gets it right the first time. She was enrolled in Susan Cobey's August 2009 class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Queen Bee

QUEEN BEE on the finger of Susan Cobey, bee breeder-geneticist at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. During the peak season, the queen bee can lay about 2000 eggs a day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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