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From: kegarvey@ucdavis.edu<BR>To: Ladadams@aol.com<BR>Sent: 9/16/2010 11:36:50
A.M. Pacific Daylight Time<BR>Subj: Norman Gary, "the human bee hive."<BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hi,
Laurie,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Can
you post this on your server list? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">This
“Bee Suit” Suits Him Just Fine: Retired Professor Norman Gary Billed as
“The Human Bee Hive” Tonight (Sept. 16)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><I>DAVIS,
CALIF.</I>--When honey bee expert Norman Gary “suits up,” don’t expect a
standard-issued bee suit.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">It’s not an
“ordinary” bee suit. And what he does is not “ordinary.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">Norman Gary, a
retired University of California, Davis entomology professor, wears his
bees—thousands of them. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">And that suits
him just fine. To him, bees are not only a science (study of apiculture), but
an adventure.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">Gary, 76, who
retired in 1994 from UC Davis after a 32-year academic career, will appear
Thursday, Sept. 16 on a History Channel show wearing 75,000 bees. The show,
part of Stan Lee’s “Super Humans,” is scheduled to be broadcast at 10 p.m.,
Pacific Time (Channel 64 for local Comcast viewers).<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">Host-presenter
Daniel Browning Smith has billed him as “the human bee hive” and will explore
bee behavior and the science behind the bees.<BR> <BR>A crew from England
filmed Gary in mid-May at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research
Facility, at Rick Schubert’s Bee Happy Apiaries in Vacaville-Winters and then
in a UC Davis open field where the 75,000 bees clustered his entire
body.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">“That’s about 20
pounds, depending upon how much honey or sugar syrup they have consumed,” Gary
said. “A hungry bee weighs approximately 90 mg and within a minute of
active ingestion she can increase her weight to 150
mgs!” <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">Norman Gary
knows bees. And he knows their behavior. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">As a beekeeper,
he’s kept bees for 62 years and as a researcher, he’s studied them for more
than three decades. He’s published more 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers
and four book chapters.<o:p></o:p></P>
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more at<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/normangarybeewrangler.html<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Keatley Garvey<BR>Communications Specialist<BR>Department of
Entomology<BR>396A Briggs Hall<BR>One Shields Ave.<BR>University of
California, Davis<BR>Davis, CA 95616<BR>Phone: (530) 754-6894<BR>Fax: (530)
752-1537<BR><A title=mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu href="mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu">kegarvey@ucdavis.edu</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><BR><A title=http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm</A><BR><A title=http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/ href="http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/">http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu</A><BR><A title=http://ucanr.org/index.cfm href="http://ucanr.org/index.cfm">http://ucanr.org/index.cfm</A><BR><A title=http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/ href="http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/">http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><BR><A title=http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/ href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/</A></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>