[Pollinator] Fwd: Norman Gary, "the human bee hive."

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 From: kegarvey at ucdavis.edu
To: Ladadams at aol.com
Sent: 9/16/2010 11:36:50  A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Norman Gary, "the human bee hive."


 

 
Hi,  Laurie, 
Can  you post this on your server list? Thanks! 
This  “Bee Suit” Suits Him Just Fine: Retired Professor Norman Gary  
Billed as  “The Human Bee Hive” Tonight (Sept. 16) 
DAVIS,  CALIF.--When honey bee expert Norman Gary “suits up,” don’t expect 
a  standard-issued bee suit. 
It’s not an  “ordinary” bee suit. And what he does is not “ordinary.” 
Norman Gary, a  retired University of California, Davis entomology 
professor, wears his  bees—thousands of them.  
And that suits  him just fine. To him, bees are not only a science (study 
of apiculture), but  an adventure. 
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). 
Host-presenter  Daniel Browning Smith has billed him as “the human bee hive”
 and will explore  bee behavior and the science behind the bees.

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. 
“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!”  
Norman Gary  knows bees. And he knows their behavior.  
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. 
See  more at 
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/normangarybeewrangler.html 
 
Kathy  Keatley Garvey
Communications Specialist
Department of  Entomology
396A Briggs Hall
One Shields Ave.
University of  California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-6894
Fax: (530)  752-1537
_kegarvey at ucdavis.edu_ (mailto:kegarvey at ucdavis.edu)  
_http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm_ 
(http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm) 
_http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu_ (http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/) 
_http://ucanr.org/index.cfm_ (http://ucanr.org/index.cfm) 
_http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/_ (http://ucanr.org/blogs/bugsquad/) 
_http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/_ 
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pho-tog/) 


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