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Forecast of Heavy Rain, Wind Changes Location of California Honey Festival
Despite the weather forecast of heavy rain and wind, honey bees will still be "attending" the California Honey Festival. They'll be safe and dry in the bee observation hives. The free and family friendly event, co-sponsored by the University of California, Davis, takes place from 10 a.m. to...
The California Honey Festival will include bee observation hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Honey Festival Is the Place to 'Bee'
Show me the honey? Show me the California Honey Festival. The annual event, which emphasizes the importance of bees, and promotes honey and honey bees and their products, will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, May 4 at the Yolo County Fairgrounds, 1250 E. Gum St., Woodland (a...
Bee observation hives attract attention at the annual California Honey Festival. Visitors delight in pointing out the queen bee and checking out the workers and drones. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Queen bee" Amina Harris, retired director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center that she founded in 2012, also co-founded the California Honey Festival in 2017. In this archived photo from last year, she offers attendees a taste of honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
At the 2023 California Honey Festival, Wendy Mather, co-program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, delighted in greeting the crowd and posing for photos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees and CAMBP Prevail at California Honey Festival
Rain and hail pelted the California Honey Festival, held recently in downtown Woodland, but that didn't deter the estimated 22,000 to 25,000 attendees who simply opened their umbrellas, slipped on their rain gear, or dashed for cover at store fronts. The educational and entertaining activities...
Master Beekeeper Sung Lee of Castro Valley, known worldwide on social media as "Sung Lee The Bee Charmer," displayed his observation hive at the California Honey Festival. With him is fellow CAMBP member Leandra Hale of Lake Tahoe. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Honey Festival attendees delighted in seeing a bee observation hive, displayed by Sung Lee the Bee Charmer of Castro Valley, a Master Beekeeper with the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Before the rains drenched the California Honey Festival, crowds flocked to the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, co-program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) and CAMBP apprentice level Rick Moehrke of Vacaville discuss the merits of beekeeping with festival attendees. Moehrke became a beekeeper last September. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
CAMBP master beekeeper Sara Cutrignelli of San Martin explains bee behavior to youngsters at the arts and crafts booth, while fellow CAMBP member Paula Brackett, an apprentice level beekeeper, helps youngsters with their creative ideas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thomas Bigham, 4, (foreground) of Woodland is excited about creating arts and crafts at the California Master Beekeeper Program booth. With him are his twin brother, Max, and sister, Sophia, 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pollination Ecologist Neal Williams: The Importance of Native Bees
Did you know that California is home to more than 1600 species of undomesticated bees—most of them native—that populate and pollinate our gardens, fields, and urban green spaces?--Source: California Bees and Blooms, a Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists. You can learn more about native...
A squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This native bee is the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, emerging from a foxglove. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, foraging on a seaside daisy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A native leafcutter bee, Megachile fidelis, on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check Out the UC Davis Speakers' Stage at the California Honey Festival
What a line-up! Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, has organized a fantastic group of speakers for the UC Davis Speakers' Stage at the California Honey Festival, set Saturday, May 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland. The event is free and family...
Pollination ecologist and professor Neal Williams, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will speak on "Native Bees and their Conservation"at 10:30 a.m., May 6 on the UC Davis Speakers' Stage at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cooperative Extension apiculturist/associate professor Elina Lastro Niño of Entomology and Nematology, and director of the California Master Beekeeper Program, will cover "What Our Bee Research Is Teaching Us" in her talk at 2 p.m., May 6 on the UC Davis Speakers' Stage at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, co-program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, will discuss "So, You Want to Be a Beekeeper?" at 1 p.m., May 6 on the UC Davis Speakers' Stage, California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
