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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAUGHT IN FLIGHT, a leafcutter bee heads toward a catmint flower (Nepeta). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Catching Up with a Leafcutter Bee

September 2nd, 2010
Leafcutter bees (Megachile spp.), so named because they cut leaves and petals to line their nests, are smaller than the honey bees but move faster. These native bees are easily recognizable by the black-white bands on their abdomen. Catching them in flight requires a lot of patience.
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CABBAGE WHITE butterfly glows in the late afternoon sun as it nectars on catmint (Nepeta). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Lovely Indeed

September 1st, 2010
If we were to describe the cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) in one word, it would be "lovely." Especially when it nectars from catmint (Nepeta) in the early evening, as the sun drops low in the horizon.
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A DEAD MOTH, a Greater Wax Moth, collected outside a bee hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sneaky Moth

August 31st, 2010
The female Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) is a sneaky creature. She flies around bee hives at night and when the opportunity presents itself--as it often does--in she goes to lay her eggs. The egg hatch into larvae, which munch and crunch just about everything in sight.
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THESE BEES at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, are ready to swarm. A few minutes later, they took off. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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All About Bee Swarms

August 30th, 2010
The peak bee season is winding down--along with the number of bee swarms. "There aren't that many bees swarming this time of the year," said Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty.
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PRAYING MANTIS clings to a purple coneflower (Echinacea pupurea) in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Let Them Bee

August 27th, 2010
If I were in charge, the praying mantis would eat only aphids, flies and stink bugs. No honey bees. Let them bee. This week we watched a praying mantis slide beneath a purple coneflower (Echinacea pupurea) at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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