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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A monarch butterfly foraging on a Mexican sunflower in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Migratory Immunity in Monarchs

May 2, 2012
Monarch butterflies, says Sonia Altizer, are "globally distributed and best known for undertaking a spectacular annual migration in parts of North America.
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Honey bee foraging in a tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Yule'll Like This One

May 1, 2012
If you're growing a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) in your yard, you won't need a stop sign or a traffic light to encourage vehicles to slow down--they will automatically when they see this spectacular plant. it's a traffic stopper.
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Common blue damselfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Like a (Blue) Needle in a Haystack

April 30, 2012
Sometimes it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The common blue damselfly or Northern Bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum) is long and slender like a needle, but a jeweled blue needle.
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Nature's Gallery, a mosaic mural celebrating insects and plants, is now at home in the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum, on Garrod Drive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Nature's Gallery: Absolutely Spectacular

April 27, 2012
Nature's Gallery is absolutely spectacular. You may remember hearing about the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program project when it was displayed in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2007. Nature's Gallery drew raves then and it's drawing raves now.
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