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Remnants of the 40 bee colonies destroyed when a truck driver, under cover of darkness, deliberately drove over them last week in Winters. They belonged to Caroline Yelle, owner of Pope Valley Queens.
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Who Deliberately Runs Over Bee Hives?

June 21, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Sometimes you hear about bored teenagers trashing bee hives by deliberately throwing rocks at them or gleefully tipping them over. But a truck driver who deliberately plows through a bee yard on private property and crushes 40 colonies? That's unreal.
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A leafcutter bee, family Megachilidae, peers at the photographer. "Here I am! It's National Pollinator Week." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Hello There, Little Leafcutter Bee

June 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hello there, little leafcutter bee! Yes, you, foraging on the sky-blue Chinese Forget-Me-Nots! You're just in time for National Pollinator Week! Leafcutter bees, family Megachilidae, are so named because the females cut leaves and petals (perfectly round holes!) to line their nests.
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Meet Dr. Charlotte Herbert Alberts and her family: her husband George, and their children, Griffin, 3, and Marcy, 7 months.
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The Day that Mama Became a Wizard

June 16, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Mortarboards are really "wizard hats." Just ask Griffin Alberts, 3, whose mother, Charlotte Herbert Alberts, received her doctorate in entomology June 15 at the UC Davis Graduate Studies Program commencement ceremony in the University Credit Union Center.
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Entomology PhDs wore insect antennae on their mortarboards. In front (from left) are six new PhDs: Lindsay Mack and Erin "Taylor" Kelly of the Geoffrey Attardo lab; and Christine Tabuloc of the Joanna Chiu lab. In back are Xavier Zahnle of the Jason Bond lab; and Zachary Griebenow and Jill Oberski of the Phil Ward lab.
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Entomology PhDs Ready to 'Knock It Out of the Park'

June 16, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Your day has finally arrived. And it's truly a great day. It's not just the musical strains of Pomp and Circumstance and all the cheers that make the day feel so good.
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A honey bee, Apis mellifera, leaving a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Leaving...

June 15, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's 3:47 p.m., on Sunday, June 4. I am watching a honey bee nectaring on a zinnia in our pollinator garden. She collects, lingers and then leaves. It was like (A) Apis mellifera to (Z) zinnia.
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A clerk at McCormack Hall, Solano County Fair, displays two junior division photos: one of a honey bee by Jesse Means of Dixon, and the other of a orange-tip butterfly by Regan Van Tuyl of Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Solano County Fair, June 15-18: Bees, Butterflies and More

June 14, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You might not expect to see Anthocharis sara sara in McCormack Hall during the 74th annual Solano County Fair, Vallejo, June 15-18. But you will. It's a photograph titled "Painted Wings" by Regan Van Tuyl, 13 of Dixon.
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