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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

European wool carder bee nectaring on Lamb's Ear. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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They're Not Sheepish on the Lamb's Ear

May 31, 2013
The next time you're around a lamb's ear--no, not the animal, the plant (Stachys byzantina)--watch for buzzing bees. Especially the European wool carder bees (Anthidium manicatum). The females card the fuzz from the soft, silvery-gray leaves for their nests.
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Multiple hands at work on the mosaic ceramic panels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Life in the Hive': Bee-utiful Art

May 30, 2013
Its all about the bees, the garden and the art. The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is installing mosaic ceramic panels on cement planters at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, west of the UC Davis central campus.
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A honey bee encounters a velvety tree ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bee and the Ant

May 29, 2013
Lavender. Honey bees love it. We watched a honey bee foraging on lavender blossoms last weekend, when an ant appeared on the scene. The ant? A worker of Liometopum occidentale (velvety tree ant), according to ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.
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Honey bee covered with pollen; she is on a yellow coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pollen Power

May 27, 2013
Bees carry pollen in their pollen baskets, but that's not the only place.
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