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Gallery: Zach's Bee Photos [(c) Zachary Huang], for Prints  Album: Bee research
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| Prof. Marla Spivak cleaning a hive body in front of her bee lab. She has an annual equipment cleanup with picnic, with many beekeepers participating. Marla is best known for her effort in breeding the hygienic bees which have shown to be useful against varroa mites, American foulbrood, etc. Sept. 18, 2002.
Her web page is at: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/Faculty/spivak/spivcv.htm* Viewed: 3218 times. | |||||||||
| Dr. Wyatt Mangum enjoying the sunset at the American Bee Research Conference at Port Deposit, MD. Wyatt teaches mathematics at a college and has done a lot of applied research on honey bee biology. He has a bee equipment museum and his privately-owned beelab has 20 obervation hives! Sept. 7, 2001. Viewed: 2637 times. | |||||||||
| Dr. Wyatt Mangum and Dr. Tom Webster enjoying the river view at the American Bee Research Conference at Port Deposit, MD. Tom has done work on queen cell feeding behavior, nosema disease and recently on selecting bees that have become naturally resistant to varroa mites. Sept. 7, 2001.
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| Dr. John Harbo performing artificial insemination on queen bees. John is best known for his efforts to breed the SMRD (prounced as "smart") bees that suppress mite reproduction in a delayed fashion. His SMRI (samuri!) bees has an immediate suppression on mite reproduction. John works at the Baton Rouge USDA bee lab. May 20, 1999.* Viewed: 2690 times. | |||||||||
| Prof. Gard Otis checking bees in early spring at the University of Guelph apiary. Gard was a student of Prof. "Chip" Taylor and worked with Africanized bees as a student. Since then he has worked on a variety of research topics, from the biology of newly re-classified Apis species, to breeding bees for tracheal mite resistance. He has an extensive collection of Asian Apis species. March, 1999.
His web address is: http://www.uoguelph.ca/OAC/env/bio/otis.htm Viewed: 2849 times. | |||||||||
| Prof. Zachary Huang measuring brood cell volume of the Asian hive bee (Apis cerana) using a syringe. Zachary obtained his Ph.D. (1988) with Dr. Gard Otis at University of Guelph, Canada. Zachary works on honey bee and varroa mite biology. His best known work is the "social inhibition" model for explaining how workers inside a colony "know" when to become foragers. With his collaborators, he was the first one successfully to accomplish the following in acarines (mites): characterization of neurotransmitter receptors (1990) and cloning and sequencing of a sodium channel gene (2002) . Yunnan, China. April 2002, photo by Guangmin Zhang.
Zach has many web pages: Dept profile www.msu.edu/~bees Bee Lab bees.msu.edu Extension cyberbee.msu.edu Invention: www.mitezapper.com Bee Photos photo.bees.net Bug eating eat.bees.net Viewed: 3095 times. | |||||||||
| Dr. Yves Le Conte taking a photo of his indoor hives at his lab. Yves works on honey bee division of labor, semiochemistry and varroa mite biology. He is best known for identifying brood pheromone, a group of 10 simple esters that are secreted by larvae and pupae to signal their age, so that workers can cap them at the right time. These chemicals have many other functions, one of them is to act as attractant for varroa mites to enter the cells, just before worker or drone larvae are sealed. March 16, 2002. Viewed: 2268 times. | |||||||||
| Dr. RWK Punchihewa checking his bees at the Baton Rouge USDA bee lab. Puchi did his Ph.D. at Guelph around the same time as me (1983-1988). If you want to learn more about the Asian hive bees (Apis cerana), read his book (Beekeeping for honey production in Sri Lanka: Management of asiatic hive honeybee Apis cerana in its natural tropical monsoonal environment, ISBN 955-9282-01-8, pp 232, Printed by Sarvodaya Vishva Kekha, Tamalana, Sri Lanka). He is now a senior lecturer at University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. Baton Rouge, May 19, 1999.* Viewed: 3035 times. | |||||||||
| Prof. Gene Robinson in his office, next to an observation hive. He obtained his Ph.D. (1986) with Prof. Roger Morse from Cornell University, did a short postdoc with Prof. Robert Page at Ohio State University, then started his career at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fall of 1989. He spearheaded the honey bee genome project and has been making many splashes in the "sociogenomics" of honey bees. Oct. 10, 2003. His web page is at: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/ Viewed: 2634 times. | |||||||||
| Prof. Guy Bloch (right) with Zachary Huang at UIUC. One time they were both postdoctors of Gene Robinson, sharing the same office. Guy now works with honey bee circadium rhythm and how that relates to division of labor. Either Dave Schulz or Yehuda Ben-Shahar (now both Drs.) took this photo. May 28, 1999.
His web page is at: http://www.bio.huji.ac.il/Lec_Details.asp?Lecturer_ID=136 Viewed: 2607 times. | |||||||||
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