<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kathy Keatley Garvey</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com">kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:04 AM<br>Subject: Item for Pollinator<br>To: Laurie Adams <<a href="mailto:LDA@pollinator.org">LDA@pollinator.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Honey Bees Are Both Artists and Engineers, Says Robert E. Page Jr. in His New Book</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">DAVIS, Calif.—Honey bees are both artists and
engineers, says eminent honey bee geneticist and biologist </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Robert E. Page Jr</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">As environmental artists,
bees are "responsible for the brilliantly colored flowers in our
landscapes," and as environmental engineers, they engineer “the niches of
multitudes of plants, animals and microbes.” </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Page, with UC Davis roots
and Arizona State University wings, has just authored a 256-page book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Bee-Environment-Landscapes-Societies/dp/0197504140" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">The Art of the Bee: Shaping the Environment from Landscapes
to Societies</span></a>” (Oxford University Press), to be published Aug.
6.   </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">“It's a long time in the
making,” said Page, who received his doctorate in entomology at UC Davis and
served as a professor and chair of the Department of Entomology (now Entomology
and Nematology) before heading to Arizona State University (ASU), where he
advanced to school director, college dean and university provost.  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">“Twenty-five years ago,
my friend and mentor <a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/HarryHydeLaidlawJr..htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Harry Laidlaw</span></a> (for whom the UC Davis bee
facility is named) wanted to write a honey bee biology textbook,” Page
recalled. When they finished the outline, “it looked very much like the
excellent book by Mark Winston <i>The Biology of the Honey Bee</i>,
published in 1987 by Harvard University Press. I decided we didn't need another
one, and we still don't.” </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The book differs in that
it's a collection of “sparkling essays” that “read like mystery stories,” said
Rudiger Wehner, professor and director emeritus of the Institute of Zoology,
University of Zürich. “With these lucidly written stories, Page takes us on a
delightful journey through the many biological traits that on the whole
constitute the honeybees' social contract.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">See more at </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://bit.ly/2XrGzVc" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2XrGzVc</a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kathy Keatley Garvey<br>UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology<br><a href="mailto:kegarvey@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">kegarvey@ucdavis.edu</a> <br>Or<br><a href="mailto:kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathykeatleygarvey@gmail.com</a> <br><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Website: <a href="http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank">http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/</a><br></span>Department News:<span>  </span><a href="http://ucanr.edu/blogs/entomology/" target="_blank">http://ucanr.edu/blogs/entomology/</a> <br>
Bug Squad blog: <a href="http://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm</a><br></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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