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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hover fly, Eristalis hirta, on zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Lovin' the Zinnias

November 5, 2013
Orange zinnias not only brighten our autumn days but glorify our gardens. And when there's a bug on the zinnias, all the better.
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This photo of a bee foraging on a zinnia, taken in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, graces the front and back covers of "Bee Friendly: A Planting Guide for European Honeybees and Australia Native Pollinators." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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All the Way from Down Under

November 4, 2013
One of the most prominent and distant--as in far away--visitors to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, was Mark Leech of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Skull shares the habitat of the giant cave cockroah (Blaberus gigante). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Things That Go Bump and Boo in the Night

November 1, 2013
It was about things that go bump and boo in the night during the annual Bohart Museum Society's Halloween party. The society's annual Halloween party in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, showcased a combination of insects and costumes.
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Jumping spider peering between the petals of a yellow rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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About Those Jumping Spiders!

October 31, 2013
Every day should be Spider Appreciation Day, but especially on Halloween. Ophthalmologist and professor Ivan Schwab of the UC Davis Health System says that spiders get a bad rap. Few would harm you, and only rarely are spiders aggressive towards humans.
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A digger bee, Habropoda pallida, with blister beetle larvae. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)
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Bees, Parasites and Maybe the End?

October 30, 2013
Thursday, Nov. 7 promises to be an exciting day for the Northern California Entomology Society--a great presentation by UC Davis evolutionary ecologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz, who researches how blister beetle nest parasites cooperate to mimic the sex pheromone of a digger bee.
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