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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HONEY BEE GURU Eric Mussen says that "beekeepers in California are cautiously optimistic that their colonies are going to survive the winter in better shape that they have in the past few years." He'll be the keynote speaker at a public celebration, "Bee Informed," on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento.
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Bee Informed

September 23rd, 2010
Colony collapse disorder--what's the status? Beekeepers in California are cautiously optimistic that their colonies are going to survive the winter in better shape that they have in the past few years, says Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty.
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NOTED MALARIA EXPERT Shirley Luckhart will be the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology's fall seminar series. She will speak from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 29 in 122 Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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"S" Is for Seminars

September 22nd, 2010
If it's September--and it is--"S" is for seminars. All over the UC Davis campus, departments are gearing up for fall seminars.
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ENTOMOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS Amy Morice and James Harwood check out a camera. They were among the students in James R. Carey's class on "How to Make an Insect Collection." The video clips are now posted on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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And All Within 10 Minutes

September 21st, 2010
When you were first asked/requested/urged/required to make an insect collection, where did you go for information? How did you learn how to collect, display and preserve insects?
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BLACK WIDOW SPIDER touches her gumdrop-sized egg sac, suspended from her web in a UC Davis parking garage. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Black Widow!

September 20th, 2010
The very presence of a black widow spider, shiny black with a globe-shaped abdomen, strikes fear in most people. And not just on Halloween.
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HONEY BEE nectaring lavender at the Mostly Natives Nursery, Tomales. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Where the Bees Are

September 17th, 2010
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty, emphasizes that if you're planting flowers to attract bees--and you should--be sure to remember them in the fall--not just the spring and summer. In the fall, food is scarce.
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