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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Program on Social Behavior of Bees, Focusing on Orchid Bees
Those charismatic and utterly spectacular orchid bees will take center stage in a virtual presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 10, as part of the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day/Month program. Postdoctoral researcher Nick Saleh of the Santiago Ramirez lab, UC Davis Department of...
An orchid bee, easily distinguished by its brilliant coloration. (Photo by Santiago Ramirez)
An orchid bee in flight. (Photo by Santiago Ramirez)
A marked Euglossa dilemma female on a nest. (Photo by Thomas Eltz)
Researcher Santiago Ramirez to Discuss Those Amazing Orchid Bees
Have you ever marveled at those amazing male orchid bees, which gather perfume compounds to attract females? Distributed throughout South and Central America, orchid bees are easily distinguished by their brilliant metallic coloration, primarily green, gold and blue, says researcher Santiago...
An orchid bee in flight. UC Davis researcher Santiago Ramirez will discuss his work at the fourth annual UC Davis Bee Sympoisum on March 3. (Photo by Santiago Ramirez)
The colorful orchid bees "are extremely charismatic organisms," says UC Davis researcher Santiago Ramirez. (Photo by Santiago Ramirez)
UC Davis Researcher to Discuss Fascinating World of Orchid Bees
In the human world, women may splash themselves with perfume to attract men, but did you know that in the orchid bee world, males gather perfume compounds to attract females? Heaven scent? Orchid bee researcher Santiago Ramirez, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Evolution and...
Santiago Ramirez captured this image of an orchid bee on an orchid. The tropical bees are distributed throughout Central and South America.
An orchid bee in flight. (Photo by Santiago Ramirez)
Green Bees
The folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis,call them "jungle gems." And "gems" they are. They're New World orchid bees (Euglossine bees), which museum director Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, describes as "the most beautiful bees in the world." They were recently...
New World orchid bees at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
