Posts Tagged: Wendy Mather
California Master Beekeeper Program Honored: 'The Bee Team' Is Really 'The 'A Team'
"The Bee Team” is really "The A Team." For "outstanding achievements and notable...
The California Master Beekeeper Program, founded by UC Extension apiculturist Elina Niño, received an excellence award at the UC Davis Staff Assembly program. With Chancellor Gary May (center) are CAMBP co-program managers Wendy Mather and Kian Nikzad. Niño and Mather shared the Faculty-Staff Partnership Award. Nikzad, an integral part of the program but ineligible as a new employee to be part of the nomination, accepted the award on behalf of Niño, who was attending a conference in Chile.
California Master Beekeeper Program co-program managers Kian Nikzad (left) and Wendy Mather talk bees with Chancellor Gary May. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño, who founded the California Master Beekeeper Program in 2014, examines a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A queen and worker bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, the home base of the California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here's to Celebrating National Honey Bee Day
Hear that buzz? National Honey Bee Day is Saturday, Aug. 19 and you're invited to join this...
A honey bee foraging in a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees and CAMBP Prevail at California Honey Festival
Rain and hail pelted the California Honey Festival, held recently in downtown Woodland, but that...
Master Beekeeper Sung Lee of Castro Valley, known worldwide on social media as "Sung Lee The Bee Charmer," displayed his observation hive at the California Honey Festival. With him is fellow CAMBP member Leandra Hale of Lake Tahoe. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Honey Festival attendees delighted in seeing a bee observation hive, displayed by Sung Lee the Bee Charmer of Castro Valley, a Master Beekeeper with the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Before the rains drenched the California Honey Festival, crowds flocked to the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, co-program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) and CAMBP apprentice level Rick Moehrke of Vacaville discuss the merits of beekeeping with festival attendees. Moehrke became a beekeeper last September. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
CAMBP master beekeeper Sara Cutrignelli of San Martin explains bee behavior to youngsters at the arts and crafts booth, while fellow CAMBP member Paula Brackett, an apprentice level beekeeper, helps youngsters with their creative ideas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thomas Bigham, 4, (foreground) of Woodland is excited about creating arts and crafts at the California Master Beekeeper Program booth. With him are his twin brother, Max, and sister, Sophia, 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why 'The Bee Team' Is 'The A Team'
"The Bee Team" is "The A Team." Congrats to the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper...
Checking out a frame in a bee hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, is California Master Beekeeper Program director Elina Lastro Niño, associate professor of Cooperative Extension and a member of the faculty of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, co-program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, examining a frame in a bee hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Master Beekeeper Program Wins UC Davis Staff Assembly's Citation of Excellence
The UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) is being recognized by the...
Elina Niño, Extension apiculturist and director of the California Master Beekeeper Program, examines a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, co-program director of the California Master Beekeeper Program, began keeping bees in 2007. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)