Cutting the Mustard

A golden bee on golden mustard.

What could represent spring in California more than that? Well, besides the just-ended almond pollination season.

Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, took her queen bee-rearing class to Orland today to tour Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc. While admiring the commercial queen bee-rearing operation, we spotted honey bees foraging on the newly planted mustard.

A beautiful spring day. Mustard plants gently swaying in the breeze. Honey bees gathering food for their hives.

If that doesn't cut the mustard, nothing does.

Honey Bee on Mustard

HONEY BEE foraging on mustard at Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc., Orland, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Upside Down

A GYMNASTIC honey bee gathering nectar from mustard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Who's the Visitor?

A HONEY BEE pokes her head around a mustard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 9:49 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

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Cutting the Mustard

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