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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DRONE FLY (Eristalis tenax) crawls on yarrow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Drone Fly: Good Pollinator

November 11th, 2010
Yarrow, yarrow, yarrow. Drone fly, drone fly, drone fly. This little insect is often mistaken for a honey bee. In the adult stage, both the drone fly and honey bee nectar flowers. However, the drone fly is a syrphid fly (family Syrphidae, subfamily Eristalinae, tribe Eristalini, genus, Eristalis).
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MONARCH BUTTERFLY in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa. One generation of monarch butterflies migrates 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico, according to LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her Nov. 4 post. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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One of Life's Little Mysteries

November 10th, 2010
It's an amazing migratory feat. "One generation of monarch butterflies flutters some 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico," writes LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her piece, "Life's Little Mysteries" posted Nov. 4 on the LiveScience website.
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BOHART MUSEUM education and outreach coordinator Tabatha Yang (left) watches Toby Thornton's delight in a green walking stick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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This Bug's for You at the Bohart

November 9th, 2010
If youre into bugs, the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus has plenty of them. Butterflies? Check. Dragonflies? Check. Native bees? Check.
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DENGUE MOSQUITO--The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits the virus that causes dengue fever. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
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On the Trail of Dengue

November 8th, 2010
Medical entomologist Thomas Scott (right), professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and a newly elected fellow of the Entomological Society of America, knows his foe well. His foe? The day-biting, tiger-striped mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
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UC DAVIS graduate student Matan Shelomi, who studies with major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, scored a big hit in this costume. "He looks just like Billy the Exterminator!" Kimsey exclaimed. (Photo by Louie Yang)
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What Entomologists Do to Have Fun

November 5th, 2010
Ghouls just like to have fun at Halloween. So do entomologists. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology. located at 1124 Academic Surge, University of California, Davis, holds its annual Halloween Open House, guests are in for a real treat. A few tricks, too--in the form of tricky costumes.
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