Posts Tagged: Elina Nino
So You Want to Become a Master Beekeeper...
So you want to become a Master Beekeeper. You don't want to just keep bees, you want to devote...
Extension apiculturist Elina Niño of UC Davis greets a beekeeping class before donning a veil and smoking the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Examining a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees clustering on a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everything's Coming Up Bees at UC Davis!
Everything's coming up bees! A number of eminent bee scientists will be speaking soon at UC Davis....
Extension apiculturist and professor David Tarpy of North Carolina State University will present a seminar on "Young Regality: a Day in the Life of a Virgin Queen Bee" from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3 in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Hall Drive, UC Davis. (North Carolina University Photo)
Plant It and They Will Come: Pollinator Garden in Front of Briggs Hall
If you plant it, they will come—the pollinators as well as members of the UC Davis campus...
Christine Casey, staff director of the department's Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven waters the newly planted Briggs Hall Pollinator Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Late afternoon sun sets the Briggs Hall Pollinator Garden aglow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Honey of a Day, a Honey of a Picnic
It promises to be a "honey of a day" and a "honey of a picnic" at the 101st annual UC Davis Picnic...
Beekeepers like to sample honey fresh from a comb. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene of last year's honey tasting event at Briggs Hall. That's Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, now retired, staffing the table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Picnic Day: Bring on the Bugs!
DAVIS--A picnic without bugs just isn't a picnic. Ask any entomologist. When the 101st...
Among those planning the entomology displays at Briggs Hall for the UC Davis Picnic Day are graduate students (from left) Danny Klittich of the Michael Parrella lab; Stephanie Kurniawan of the Ed Lewis/Shirley Luckhart labs; Brendon Boudinot of the Phil Ward lab; and Maribel “Mimi” Portilla of the Sharon Lawler lab. Among those not pictured: Rei Scampavia of the Ed Lewis/Neal Williams labs; Erin Donley Marineau of the Lawler lab; and Mohammad-Amir Aghaee of the Larry Godfrey lab.
A different angle: Posing for a photo behind a wood cutout of a honey bee and flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Diane Ullman, with the help of a maggot, created this art work at the "maggot art" table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crowd favorite at the Bohart Museum of Entomology is Peaches, a rose-haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Forensic entomologist Robet Kimsey as "Dr. Death." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The fine art of fly-tying. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fran Keller, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, staffs the gift shop at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)