Posts Tagged: Honey
Did you catch the buzz?
Did you catch the buzz? It's still a troubling scene for our nation's honey bees, but it appears that the total losses for the 2011-2012 winter aren't as bad as they could be. In other words, managed honey bee colonies appear to be holding their own....

Honey bee heading toward pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee packing pollen while foraging on almond blossoms at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey!
They didn't call it "Show Me the Honey."They didn't call it "Sweet October."It's "Honey!" That's "Honey!" with an exclamation point. That says it all.The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the UC Davis Department of Entomology, and the...

National Honey Bee Queen Teresa Bryson at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. The sculpture is by Davis artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Frame of honey from the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
That liquid gold called honey
If those pollen-packing honey bees were to board an aircraft, they’d be charged for their carry-on luggage. Fortunately they don’t and they’re not. And if we were a bee, we’d have to visit two million flowers to make a pound of honey. Fortunately...

Frame of Uncapped Honey

Sampling



