Bug Squad

Bee connected; save the date. The grand opening of the half-acre Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 11. The honey bees already know it's there.

Everybody loves a bumble bee. Especially the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. And especially a queen.

If you cotton to honey, you'll want to head over to Briggs Hall tomorrow (Saturday, April 17) during the 96th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. You can sample cotton honey, as well as five other flavors, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

When some folks think of a honey bee, they immediately think of stings. Not pollination, not honey, not colony collapse disorder, but stings. To beekeepers, stings are a minor irritation, or perhaps not an irritation at all. It's just something that happens in an occupation.

Excellent work! We're glad to see that three noted entomologists at the University of California, Davis, received distinguished awards in their fields at the 94th annual meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) on April 13 in Boise, Idaho.