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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEE SCULPTURE, titled "Miss Bee Haven," graces the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. It is the work of noted artist Donna Billick. The ceramic tiles on the bench and the bee hive columns (back) are the work of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Tribute to the Bees

October 28th, 2010
A gigantic bee sculpture and bee hive columns are major attractions at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of the California, Davis. The grand opening of the half-acre bee friendly garden took place Sept.
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PURPLE ASTERS bloom brilliantly at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. In the back are the bee boxes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Gearing Up for Winter

October 27th, 2010
There's a magnificent purple aster blooming in the bee yard at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis. The aster, a late-bloomer, makes for a picture-perfect apiary scene...white bee boxes in the background...purple aster in the foreground...
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A HONEY BEE, resting in the folds of a rose, appears to be playing hide and seek with another insect. Those antennae belong to a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Stop and Smell the Roses

October 26th, 2010
Do bees stop and smell the roses? Maybe. Honey bees gather nectar and pollen from a variety of flowers, including their favorites, the salvias, mints and lavenders. They also forage on wild roses, but usually not on commercially grown roses.
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TINY walnut twig beetle, in association with a fungus, is wreaking havoc on black walnut trees. It's found in California, seven western states and now Tennessee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Beetles, Termites, Mites and More!

October 25th, 2010
When the Northern California Entomology Society meets Thursday, Nov. 4, the menu will include walnut twig beetles, mites, drywood termites and Oriental fruit moth parasitoids. And also barbecued marinated ball tip and chicken quarters with barbecued beans and salad.
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IPM SPECIALIST Frank Zalom checks out an almond tree. He was just named the 2010 recipient of the "Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management" from the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Our IPM Expert

October 22nd, 2010
Good news. Integrated pest management specialist Frank Zalom (right), professor of entomology at UC Davis, is the 2010 recipient of the "Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management from the Entomological Society of America (ESA), a 6000-member worldwide organization.
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