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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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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

Praying mantis hides beneath the petals of a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Miss Is as Good as a Smile

August 22nd, 2014

Our buddy, the resident praying mantis, appears to be in perfect form. Crouched beneath the Mexican sunflower (Tithonia), he glistens in the early morning light, as honey bees, long-horned bees, Gulf Fritillary butterflies and fiery skippers search for food.

Honey bees flying in formation toward an artichoke in bloom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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The Artichoke in Bloom: Bee Food

August 21st, 2014

Bee food. That's what the globe artichoke is. Bee food. Many of us let our artichokes flower, not because we don't like the vegetable, but because we like bees better.

Cabbage white butterfly in mid-flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Luck of a Lady in White

August 20th, 2014

There's something about the cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) that makes folks foam at the mouth.

A drone (male bee) emerging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Keeping Bees

August 19th, 2014

So you want to keep bees in your backyard... When do you start? What should you do? Newly retired Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, continues to field questions.

Two Gulf Fritillary caterpillars meet on a stem after having munched all the leaves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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The Strippers

August 18th, 2014

We have strippers. Not anything to do with that thriving business known as "The Strip Club" in Las Vegas.