[Pollinator] FW: Press Release from the International Bee Research Association

[Kathy Keatley Garvey]

David Tarpy Seminar on Feb. 3: Day in the Life of a Virgin Bee


What's it like in the day of a life of a virgin queen bee?

Extension apiculturist/professor David Tarpy
<https://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/tarpy> of North Carolina State
University will present a seminar on "Young Regality: a Day in the Life of
a Virgin Queen Bee"  from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3 in 122 Briggs
Hall, Kleiber Hall Drive, UC Davis.

The seminar, open to all interested persons, is part of the UC Davis
Department of Entomology and Nematology's noonhour seminars. It also will
be recorded for later posting on UCTV. His host is Elina Niño, Extension
apiculturist, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

"Social insects have long fascinated entomologists, and honey bees have
been a model system for their study," said Tarpy, who received his
doctorate in entomology at UC Davis in 2000 with major professor Robert
Page, former chair of the Department of Entomology and now university
provost emeritus and Foundation chair of Life Sciences, Arizona State
University. "At the heart of the colony is a single queen, the mother of
all nestmates and critical member for colony productivity. The natural
history of queens is a fascinating story, one that interweaves the
complexities of social behavior, genetics, and evolutionary ecology." See
more at

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=20046


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Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
kegarvey at ucdavis.edu
Or
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