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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HALL OF FAME--Michael Parrella (right), professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, was inducted into the California Floriculture Hall of Fame on Feb. 25 in San Diego. With him is presenter Mike Mellano Sr., of Mellano & Company, Oceanside. Mellano was inducted into the Floriculture Hall of Fame in 1990. (Photo Courtesy of Debi Aker)
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Saying It With Flowers

March 10th, 2011
It's indeed an honor--a sweet one. Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, was recently inducted into the California Floriculture Hall of Fame at a ceremony in San Diego. Mike Mellano Sr., of Mellano & Company, Oceanside, presented Parrella with the plaque.
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MARLA SPIVAK, one of the 2010 recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship or "Genius Award," will speak at the Bee Symposium, March 19, in Sebastopol. (Photo courtesy of Dan Marshall)
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The Place to 'Bee' on March 19

March 9th, 2011
The Veterans' Memorial Hall in Sebastopol is the place to "bee" on Saturday, March 19. That's when and where the fifth annual Bee Symposium will take place. And and one of the speakers is none other than MacArthur Fellow Marla Spivak, professor of apiculture at the University of Minnesota.
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ARGENTINE ANT (Linepithema humile) and honey bee (Apis mellifera) share a flower in the Storer Garden at UC Davis. They both are members of the order, Hymenoptera, which includes bees, ants and wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ants

March 8th, 2011
Unlike the Saints, the ants won't "go marching in"; they'll be "marching on." The "Ants Go Marching On will set the theme for the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 13 at 1124 Academic Surge, California Drive, UC Davis campus.
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HONEY BEE pollinating an almond blossom today at the half-acre Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Escalating Cost of Growing Almonds

March 7th, 2011
Growing almonds isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's expensive. The next time you're enjoying a ice cream bar coated with almonds or a salad with toasted almonds, think not only about the honey bees, but the growers.
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EARLY RISER--Black-tail bumble bee (Bombus melanopygus) forages at 9:30 a.m., Friday, March 4 in ceanothus at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Welcome Visitor

March 4th, 2011
At first I thought it was a yellow-faced bumble bee. Sort of like applying the adage, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." That's because most of the bumble bees I see are the yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii).
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