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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A monarch,Danaus plexippus, forages on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Beckoning World of Butterflies

June 12th, 2015
"Generally, butterflies are brightly colored on the top side and have dull colors on the underside. The bright colors are used to attract a mate and the dull colors are used to hide from predators.
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Check out the heavy load of orange pollen that this yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is packing. It is foraging on hairy vetch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Check Out the Pollen!

June 11th, 2015
Talk about a pollen-packing bumble bee. A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, displayed quite a heavy load of orange pollen recently as it foraged on hairy vetch in the Hastings Preserve, Carmel, owned and operated by the University of California, Berkeley.
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A jumping spider, Phidippus audax, "poses" for a photo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Jump! How Far?

June 10th, 2015
Who's that knocking on our front door? Actually, we didn't hear it knock. It appeared out of nowhere and climbed up to our doorbell. We gingerly placed the jumping spider, Phidippus audax, in a vial to transport it to our backyard bee garden. Phidippus audax, aka P.A.
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This moth, Schinia sueta, feeds on hairy vetch, Vicia villosa, in a meadow at Hastings Preserve, Carmel. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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One Cool Little Moth: Schinia sueta!

June 9th, 2015
Ever heard of Schinia sueta? It's a moth. We spotted this little moth, from the Noctuidae family, in a meadow at the Hastings Preserve in Carmel in early May during the BugShot Macro Photography Course, taught by Alex Wild, John Abbott and Thomas Shahan.
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A bee colony is one of the features in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, west of the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Bee Garden to Mark National Pollinator Week

June 8th, 2015
It's almost time to celebrate! Or cele-bee-ate! In observation of National Pollinator Week, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology has scheduled an open house at its half-acre bee garden, the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven from 5:30 to 7 p..m., Friday, June 19.
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