Bug Squad

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

Male yellowjacket heads toward a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Kissin' Cousins

November 30, 2012

What's that? A honey bee and a male yellowjacket on the same blossom? That's exactly what we saw Nov. 14 at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.

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Honey bee on a blanket flower, Galliardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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The Buzz About Pesticides

November 29, 2012

"Reducing the Usage of Bee-Killing Pesticides in My Community." That's the topic--and a good one it is--of the 2013 4-H Honey Bee Essay Contest, sponsored by The Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees.

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Professor Marc Tatar of Brown State University, Providence, R.I., will deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar at UC Davis on Dec. 5.

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He'll Give the Leigh Distinguished Seminar

November 28, 2012

It's quite an honor to be singled out to deliver the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Seminar, hosted annually by the UC Davis Department of Entomology. This year's recipient is Marc Tatar, an authority on the aging of insects.

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This species, from genus Macrocopturus, is waiting to be described. And waiting for a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards)

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The Perfect Gift

November 27, 2012

So, you're looking for that perfect, one-of-a-kind holiday gift. One that will not only be memorable but a conversation piece.

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A Jerusalem cricket. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Strange Little Insect

November 26, 2012

It's a strange little insect. A reader likens it to "a cricket on steroids." A Van Nuys resident says she always wondered what they were. "I've lived in this house for 17 years, and a few times a year I see this strange insect in my backyard. It is always either dead or dying.

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