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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 nectaring on Tidy Tips, a native California wildflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sun Break: Here Come the Bees

February 10th, 2010
The Tidy Tips are a'blooming and the bees are a'buzzing. The Tidy Tips, a native California wildflower (Layia platyglossa, family Asteraceae) is a welcome addition to flower beds.
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THIS PRAYING MANTIS gets lots of attention at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Going Buggy

February 9th, 2010
Let's go buggy at the Bohart! The Bohart Museum of Entomology, which houses more than seven million insect specimens at its facility on the University of California, Davis campus, has extended its hours to include several weekends. The first will be Saturday, Feb. 13 from 1 to 5 p.m.
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TEXTBOOK COVER of "The Insects: An Outline of Entomology." The textbook, considered "the gold standard of entomology books," will be available in the United States in March. It is the work of UC Davis professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston.
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Long Awaited: The Insects

February 8th, 2010
The Insects are coming. The Insects are coming. That would be the fourth edition of The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, the newly published work of professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston (at right) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
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Prized Award

February 5th, 2010
A nice prize! Evolutionary ecologist Anurag Agrawal (right), who received his doctorate in population biology from the University of California, Davis in 1999 under major professor Richard Rick Karban, has just received the sixth David Starr Jordan Prize for his innovative research inolving plant-an...
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A SURE SIGN OF SPRING--A truck loaded with bee hives tows a forklift as it travels through Sacramento. The forklift will alleviate the movement and placement of the hives in a soggy orchard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Sure Sign of Spring

February 4th, 2010
A sure sign of spring: trucks loaded with bee hives heading out to the almond orchards. Yes, almond pollination season is almost here. California has approximately 700,000 acres of almonds, and each acre requires two hives for pollination.
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