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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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A cabbage white butterfly on catmint in Vacaville, Solano County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Beer for a Butterfly

December 26th, 2014
DAVIS--A beer for a butterfly. If you collect the first live cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) of 2015 in Yolo, Sacramento or Solano counties and have it verified as the winner, you'll get a pitcher of beer or its equivalent.
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Golden bee (Cordovan) nectaring on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Revisiting 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'

December 24th, 2014
It's time to revisit "The 13 Bugs of Christmas." You've heard "The 12 Days of Christmas," beginning with a single "partridge in a pear tree" and ending with "12 drummers drumming.
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Inside the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Night Before Christmas...in a Bee Colony

December 24th, 2014
Professor Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 July 10, 1863) wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for his family in 1822. It later became known as "The Night Before Christmas." Fast forward, 92 years later.
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