Bug Squad

What will it be? Wear bees or eat insects? Lets do both! UC ANR Vice-President Barbara Allen-Diaz promises to wear beeshoney beesif she can raise $2500 by Thursday, Oct. 31 for the UC Promise for Education, a fundraising project to help needy UC students. See her promise page to donate.

We're not perfect. Mother Nature isn't, either. For several weeks, we've been rearing Gulf Fritilliary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae).

Poet Gertrude Stein, who coined "A rose is a rose is a rose," probably would have liked it. Julia Child, maybe not.

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. The Western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis) seems to be making a comeback of sorts in some parts of the West. Reporter Michelle Nijhuis, in an Oct.

There's a "me" in mead. There also could be a "u" in mead, as in "you." There's definitely a honey bee, as without the bee and the honey, there's no mead.