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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Fevers from the Forest

November 28, 2011
Fevers from the forest... Dengue is one of them. Dengue, transmitted by the daybiting Aedes aegypti mosquito, globally infects 50 to 100 million people yearly, according to dengue expert Tom Scott, professor of entomology at UC Davis. At risk are some 2.
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Bug Girl talks with Ayanava Majumdar, Auburn University, Alabama. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'I Am Bug Girl'

November 25, 2011
Gotta love that Bug Girl. Oh, sure, there are lots of bug girls and bug boys out there--bug women, bug men and real insects, too--but there's only one Bug Girl. She's the one who writes that witty/informative/tell-it-like-it-is-not-what-you-want-it-to-be bug blog called...drum roll...Bug Girl.
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Gulf fritillary nectaring a passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Grateful for the Gulf Frits!

November 24, 2011
It's Thanksgiving, and time to be grateful. In the bug world, we're all grateful for the people who study insects, monitor them, and share information to impart scientific data and help save declining species.
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Metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon texanus) on coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Tiny Saviors in Our Backyard

November 23, 2011
If you're interested in native bees, you'll want to read the newly published University of California research article, "Tiny Saviors in Our Backyard.
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UC Davis team of Matan Shelomi, Mohammad-Amir Aghaee, Meredith Cenzer and Andrew Merwin competed in the semi-finals. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What's That Again?

November 22, 2011
Quick! Answer this question: Until recently, praying mantids were thought to be deaf. We now know that 65 percent of all mantid species can hear.
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