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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BAXTER HOUSE, built in 1938, went up in flames on June 30 in a UC Davis firefighters' control burn. The grounds will now be a quarter-acre field of wildflowers called The Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It's All the Buzz

September 16th, 2009
Rising soon from the ashes of the Baxter House fire will be the soothing colors of the Campus Buzzway. It's a story that began in May 1938 with a farmhouse-turned-lab-turned-eyesore. It will end with the honey bees' version of "A Field of Dreams"--the Campus Buzzway.
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HONEY BEE, packing pollen, heads into a patch of Argentine rain lilies (Zephyranthes candida) in the White Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It's Raining Rain Lilies

September 15th, 2009
It's raining rain lilies in the Carolee Shields White Flower Garden of the UC Davis Arboretum. The Argentine Rain Lily (Zephyranthes candida), also known as the White Rain Lily, White Fairy Lily and White Zephyr Lily, is drawing a few honey bees, but the bees like the lavender and sage best.
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BLACK-FACED BUMBLE BEE, Bombus californicus, nectars salvia in the Storer Garden, UC Davis. This salvia is Salvia officinalis, cultivar Berggarten. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Warding Off Evil

September 14th, 2009
If you stuff your turkey with sage, chances are it's Salvia officinalis. Not the turkey, the sage.
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BLACK SOLDIER FLY or Hermetia illucens, about three-fourths of an inch long, heads for bark mulch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Soldiering Along

September 11th, 2009
If you're into composting, chances are you've seen this one. Common name: black soldier fly (BSF). Scientific name: Hermetia illucens. Before you say "yecch"--wait! This is considered a beneficial insect because its larvae are quite desirable in compost piles.
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YELLOW-FACED bumble bee inside a rock purslane blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Unexpected Visitor

September 10th, 2009
It's time to pop open a bottle of champagne and do a happy dance. Finally, finally, we saw a yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) in our yard. After a 20-year absence.
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