Posts Tagged: Randy Oliver

Honey Bees Still in Trouble

Honey bees are still in trouble.University of California scientists hammered home that point tonight during the PBS NewsHour program on the colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the declining bee population. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology told Spencer...

Beekeepers Bill Cervenka (left) of Half Moon Bay and Randy Oliver of Grass Valley check out a frame in Healdsburg during a bee conference.. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

eekeepers Bill Cervenka (left) of Half Moon Bay and Randy Oliver of Grass Valley check out a frame in Healdsburg during a bee conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Symposium to Help the Bees

Robbin Thorp's many areas of expertise include the amazing diversity of native bees. He'll discuss their diversity, nesting habits and nest site requirements when he addresses the 2010 Bee Symposium, sponsored by the Santa Rosa-based Partners for Sustainable Pollination (PFSP). The conference, to...

Robbin Thorp

NATIVE BEE SPECIALIST Robbin Thorp looks for native bees in an almond tree on the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. He'll be a keynote speaker at the 2010 Bee Symposium, set March 7 in Sebastopol. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Examining Hives

SPEAKERS at the 2010 Bee Symposium, set March 7 in Sebastopol, will include Serge Labesque (left), a beekeeper in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, and Randy Oliver (far right, in blue shirt), a researcher and beekeeper in Grass Valley, Nevada County. The two were among the speakers at the 2009 Western Apicultural Society meeting in Healdsburg, where this photo was taken. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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