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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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BEE GONE--A webweaving spider with "breakfast," a honey bee in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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She Didn't Come Home Last Night

September 16th, 2010
She didn't come home last night. The little honey bee at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis, wound up in a spider's stomach.
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'The Human Bee Hive'

September 15th, 2010
Many beekeepers keep bees, but Norman Gary wears them. Gary, who received his doctorate in entomology (apiculture) from Cornell University, served as a professor at the University of California, Davis for 32 years, retiring in 1994.
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BEEKEEPER Frank Pendell of Pendell Apiaries, Stonyford, Calif., vice president of the California State Beekeepers' Association, chats with Dori Sera Bailey, director of consumer communications, Häagen-Dazs and Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. In the back are visitors touring the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Honey of a Garden Celebration

September 14th, 2010
Some 1300 people, including beekeepers, entomologists, gardeners, nature lovers, and children--plus millions of bees in the vicinity--helped celebrate the grand opening of the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven last Saturday, Sept. 11. The haven, a bee friendly garden planted last fall next to the Harry H.
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UC DAVIS bioanalytical chemist Jun-Yan Liu, the senior author of the paper, at work in the Hammock laboratory. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pursuing Relief from Pain

September 13th, 2010
Pest management. Pain management. Early in his career, entomologist Bruce Hammock, now a distinguished professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis and a newly selected fellow of the Entomological Society of America, probed regulating the development of insect larvae.
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THIS BEE, a Svastra obliqua expurgata, forages on a purple coneflower in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology, is monitoring the many species of bees in the garden. To date: more than 50 over the last two years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Glory Bee

September 10th, 2010
Glory bee. There are more than just honey bees in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Think butterflies, dragonflies, sweat bees, metallic sweat bees, carpenter bees, hover flies, tachinid flies, wasps, praying mantids and what not.
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