How to celebrate Valentine's Day? Well, without pollinators, we wouldn't be celebrating Valentine's Day as we know it. That box of chocolates? Give thanks to the midges that pollinated the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao.

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A honey bee queen on a finger. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Give Her Some Space

February 12th, 2015

If you see a news story about "honey bees" in a newspaper or magazine, odds are you'll see it spelled as one word, "honeybees." That's because the Associated Press Stylebook, the journalists' "bible," spells it that way. So do dictionaries. However, in the entomological world, that's incorrect.

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Honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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From A (Almond) to B (Bee)

February 11th, 2015

This is a story about honey bees, almonds and a Harvard gradate student who is passionate about pollinators. Stephanie Hsia, a master of landscape architecture candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), has just created a marvelous 46-page digital story, http://almondandbee.

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The queen and her court. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Honey Bee Scientist Amro Zayed at UC Davis Feb. 11

February 10th, 2015

There's a lot of interest building in this seminar. Amro Zayed of the Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada, will speak on "Honey Bee Behavioral Genomics: Worker Behavior and Adaptation" from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11 in Room 122 of Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus.

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This tarantula was popular at the Bohart Museum on Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Good Day for Bugs!

February 9th, 2015

It was a good day for bugs. But isn't every day a good day for bugs? The Bohart Museum of Entomology on the University of California, Davis, campus, proved to be a good focal point last Sunday during the fourth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. It was one of six museums being showcased.

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