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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An almond blossom graces an area near the Benicia marina on Jan. 23, 2021. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Hear That Buzz? Almond Pollination Season Is Approaching

January 29th, 2021
Hear that buzz? California almond pollination season is approaching. The season usually begins around Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, but we usually see the first-of-the-year almond blooms in mid-January in a hot spot near the Benicia marina. That's where we saw them on Jan.
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A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf on Jan. 23 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Surprise! A Monarch Caterpillar in C-O-L-D January

January 28th, 2021
"What are YOU doing here?" It was Saturday morning, Jan. 23, and the monarch caterpillar seemed to be sunning itself on a milkweed leaf in our family's pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif., a Solano County city situated between San Francisco and Sacramento. Yes, Saturday, Jan. 23.
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Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera section at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions from UC Biodiversity Museum Day visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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February Is UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month!

January 27th, 2021
The 10th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a science-based day celebrating the diversity of life, will sport a new look and a longer life this year. It won't be a single day for you to visit all the museums and collections on campus and talk to the scientists.
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Eric Conn, a noted plant biochemist, nurtured the UC Davis Arborteum’s acacias for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. He died in 2017 at age 94. (UC Davis Photo)
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UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games Set--Davis and Dublin

January 26th, 2021
What a novel idea! UCD vs. UCD! One is the University of California, Davis, or UCD. The other: University College Dublin, or UCD. Just add "UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games," and you get a friendly global rivalry between undergraduate biochemistry students at the two universities.
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