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Bonjour, Yves Le Conte!
In French, "bonjour" means "Hello, good day." So when Yves Le Conte, director of the French...
At the Laidlaw apiary: from left are staff research associate/beekeeper Bernardo Niño of the Laidlaw facilty; French bee scientist Yves Le Conte, director of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris; assistant professor/bee scientist Brian Johnson; master beekeeper/journalist Mea McNeil; Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology; and Eric Mussen, Extension apiculturist emeritus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
At the Bohart: From left are Mea McNeil, Yves Le Conte, Eric Mussen and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, discusses museum specimens with French bee scientist Yves Le Conte. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology student Wade Spencer (far right) and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum, show Yves Le Conte a Chaco golden knee tarantula, Grammostola pulchripes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp, distinguished professor of entomology at UC Davis, shows Yves Le Conte the device that he uses to catch and release bees in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. At left is Christine Casey, staff director of the haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yves Le Conte stands next to the six-foot-long ceramic mosaic bee sculpture that anchors the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. It is the work of artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Discussing bee science at the Laidlaw facility are (from left) staff research associate Bernardo Niño of the Laidlaw; Norm Gary, UC Davis emeritus professor of entomology and retired bee wrangler; French bee scientist Yves Le Conte; and Elina Niño, Extension apiculturist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not Too Late for a Date with the Bee Experts
If you haven't registered yet for the second annual UC Davis Bee Symposium: Keeping Bees Healthy, a...
A honey bee foraging on a blanket flower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Italian honey bee dusted with pollen. It is foraging on an Iceland poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Bee Symposium: Mark Your Calendar
You won't want to miss what's happening on the UC Davis campus on Saturday, May 7. It's the second...
Bee scientist Yves Le Conte, director of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris, will be a keynote speaker at the UC Davis Bee Symposium on May 7.
Second Annual Bee Symposium Set May 7
DAVIS--Keynote speakers at the second annual UC Davis Bee Symposium, set Saturday, May 7 in the UC...
Yves Le Conte, director of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris,
Urban chickens are fun and a current fad
Among her sources for the story was the director of UC Cooperative Extension's Statewide Master Gardener Program Pamela Geisel, who keeps 10 hens at her own rural home west of Chico.
She said enthusiasm for homegrown hens in urban areas may be close to peaking.
“It’s sort of a fad,” she said. Still, “it’s easy to buy chicks, and they’re cheap."
Most of the potential problems tend to arise from having too many chickens in too little space, she said, so regulations for the size and housing of backyard flocks can “help chicken keepers be better chicken keepers.”
She cautioned that keeping chickens involves a significant effort.
“The poop just doesn’t go away — it’s a constant daily cleanup,” she said. “They get sick, they get parasites. For many people it’s just not worth the effort.”
California's growing marijuana business impacting agriculture
Harry Cline, Western Farm Press
California has the dubious distinction of being America’s biggest marijuana supplier. Approximately 75 percent of the marijuana sold in the U.S. is grown in California — not Mexico.
Michelle Le Strange, UCCE farm advisor in Tulare County, said she has been warned by county officials and law enforcement officers that she should be alert in driving a county vehicle in rural areas because marijuana plantation tenders might think she is a law enforcement officer, and she could be in danger.
Any government officials driving vehicles with government plates should be concerned because these marijuana plantations are operated by Mexican drug cartels, the same lawless gangs who are responsible for thousands of murders each year in Mexico. These cartels actually scour the U.S. Forest Service lands in search of ideal growing sites, often adjacent to running streams. The cartels stock these plantations with people, drip irrigation tubing and chemicals to farm the illegal weed.