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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A NEWLY EMERGED BEE at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Victory for the Bees

December 30th, 2009
It's being hailed by environmental groups as "a victory for the bees." A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the insecticide, spirotetramat, must be pulled from the shelves because it could be dangerously toxic to America's declining honey bee population. Starting Jan.
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HONEY BEE makes a beeline to an almond blossom on the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. California's annual almond pollination begins in February. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Waiting for the Almond Blossoms

December 30th, 2009
Soon beekeepers from around the country will be trucking their bees to California for the annual almond pollination. California has some 700,000 acres of almonds, with each acre requiring two hives for pollination. But an article in the Dec.
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TONGUE EXTENDED in anticipation of nectar, a honey bee heads for lavender. Using the Pavlov dog method, bees can be trained to stick out their tongue, or proboscis, when they smell explosives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bomb-Sniffing Bees?

December 28th, 2009
The attempt to down an airline over Detroit, Mich., on Christmas Day with a chemical explosive strapped inside a passenger's underwear may spur new interest in honey bees as bomb-sniffing detectives. It brings to mind scientist Robert Wingo's recent talk at UC Davis.
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A SOLITARY HONEY BEE forages among the Christmas Cheer, also known as Knipofia "Christmas Cheer' or "red-hot poker." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Good Dose of Christmas Cheer

December 25th, 2009
Definitely a good dose of Christmas Cheer! In the plant world, that would be the Kniphofia Christmas Cheer," also known as "red-hot poker." On a visit last week to the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum, we encountered a lone honey bee foraging among the Christmas Cheer.
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BOXELDER BUG likes to overwinter in homes and garages. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Not a Creature Was Stirring?

December 24th, 2009
'Twas the night before Christmas When all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a mouse... --'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) No, but maybe a boxelder bug (Boisea trivittatus).
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