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From Marla Spivak to Amy Toth
May is a few months away, but already there's strong interest in the line-up of speakers at the UC Davis Bee Symposium, set Saturday, May 9 in the UC Davis Conference Center. The theme? "Keeping Bees Healthy." An excellent topic. The all-day event will be presented by the Honey...
Amy Toth with a Polistes paper wasp.
Marla Spivak's Keynote Speech: 'Helping Bees Stand on Their Own Six Feet'
"Helping Bees Stand on Their Own Six Feet." Yes, honey bees have six feet, and that's the title of a keynote speech to be presented May 9 at the University of California, Davis by Distinguished McKnight Professor and 2010 MacArthur Fellow Marla Spivak of the University of Minnesota. To take place...
Honey bee foraging on a tulip. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All the Way from Down Under
One of the most prominent and distant--as in far away--visitors to the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, was Mark Leech of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Leech visited the garden several years ago to research his book,...
This photo of a bee foraging on a zinnia, taken in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, graces the front and back covers of "Bee Friendly: A Planting Guide for European Honeybees and Australia Native Pollinators." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Cold, Hard Facts About Honey Bees
Photos of honey bees can sometimes exude a dreamy, even ethereal quality, but in real life, bees are in trouble. That's why Marla Spivak's TED talk should be required viewing. Spivak, a distinguished McKnight University professor of apiculture at the University of Minnesota, talks about the...
Honey bee on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Place to 'Bee' on March 19
The Veterans' Memorial Hall in Sebastopol is the place to "bee" on Saturday, March 19. That's when and where the fifth annual Bee Symposium will take place. And and one of the speakers is none other than MacArthur Fellow Marla Spivak, professor of apiculture at the University of...
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Bee on almond
