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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 BREEDER-GENETICIST Susan Cobey (left) shows a hive to the students in her queen bee-rearing class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Rearing Queen Bees

March 31st, 2010
It wouldn't dare rain on Susan Cobey's queen bee-rearing classes. And it didn't today. Well, a little sprinkle, but that was it. Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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HONEY BEE lies still on a white calla lily in the Carolee Shields White Flower Garden at the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Death on a Calla Lily

March 30th, 2010
It probably wasn't colony collapse disorder. Probably not pesticides, a disease, malnutrition or stress, either. It could have been a pest.
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FIRST SPEAKER--Julien Pelletier, a postdoctoral scholar in the Walter Leal chemical ecology lab at UC Davis, is the first speaker in the UC Davis Department of Entomology spring seminar series. His topic: "Mining the Genome for Olfactory Proteins." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bugs, Bugs & Bugs

March 29th, 2010
If spring has sprung--and it has--it's also time to spring forward the next batch of noonhour seminars at the UC Davis Department of Entomology. The spring lectures are held every Wednesday, March 31 through May 26, from 12:10 to 1 p.m., in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Drive.
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A JUST RELEASED ladybug prowls a rose bush for aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Fly Away Home

March 26th, 2010
"I'm a ladybug. Please, take me home. I want to live in your garden. I like to eat aphids. Aphids are tiny green insects that are harmful to plants." "Just like the Grange, I'm a friend to the farmer and you.
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UC DAVIS BEEKEEPER Elizabeth "Liz" Frost tends bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bees Still in Trouble

March 25th, 2010
The news is not good. The honey bee crisis is worsening. Back in November of 2006, commercial beekeeper David Hackenberg of Pennsylvania sounded the alarm. Fifty 50 percent of his bees had collapsed in Florida.
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