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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honey bee keeps a close eye on the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey(
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'Quincing' Our Thirst

January 20, 2014
You can quench your thirst. And then you can "quince" your thirst. That would be a honey bee on a flowering quince. Yes, the flowering quince are flowering. And none too soon in our drab landscape, nearly devoid of color. Today the honey bees seems to be in a feeding frenzy.
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Lady beetle, aka ladybug, devouring an aphid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What's for Lunch?

January 17, 2014
What's for lunch? If you're a lady beetle (aka ladybug), a good bet is you'll have one of those yummy, plant-sucking aphids. In fact, you'll eat your fill. Please do.
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Get parasitized! The sign at the Bohart Museum says it all. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Mighty Mites

January 16, 2014
The creative folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, have done it again. Among the many activities at their recent "Snuggle Bugs" open house was a "mite/art station.
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The three queen bumble bees (Bombus melanopygus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Lovely Ladies at the Laidlaw

January 15, 2014
So far, so good. The three queen bumble bees (Bombus melanopygus) we found buzzing around our porch light the night of Jan. 9 are still very much alive.
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