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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DOUBLE VISION?--Keep your eyes open for a cabbage white butterfly in California's Central Valley (Sacramento, Solano or Yolo counties). UC Davis professor Arthur Shapiro will trade a pitcher of beer for the first cabbage white of 2009. This photo was taken Sept. 7, 2008. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Beer for a Butterfly

December 22nd, 2008
Seen any cabbage whites lately? If you capture one before UC Davis professor Arthur Shapiro does, he'll trade you a beer for your butterfly. Actually, a pitcher of beer or its cash equivalent. Yes, it's time for Shapiro's 38th annual Butterfly-for-Beer contest.
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HMMMM--Randy Veirs of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, admires the ladybug cupcakes his wife made for the entomology office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Eat a Bug

December 19th, 2008
You CAN have your cake and eat it, too. You can also "have your BUG and eat it, too." Even if you're not into entomophagy.
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PROTECTIVE GEAR--Beekeepers wear protective gear to ward off bee stings. Here UC Davis beekeeper Kim Fondrk tends his bees. These are not Africanized bees (as mentioned in the text above), but European or Western honey bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Run for Cover

December 18th, 2008
Who put the killer in killer bees? Someone named B. Melon asked that question on the Strange but True segment of the Web site, readthehook.com. To answer the bee question, Bill Sones and Rich Sones did what many do.
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THE ARTIST--Noted artist Catherine Chalmers will speak on "Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches" from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Wyatt Pavilion, UC Davis.
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Sex, Food Chains and Cockroaches

December 17th, 2008
American humorist-entertainer Will Rogers said "I never met a man I didn't like." I wonder if he would have said the same thing about insects. Oh, sure, he probably liked--and appreciated--the butterflies, the honey bees and the ladybugs. But cockroaches? I bet not.
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THE QUEEN--The queen bee (center) lays about 2000 eggs a day during the peak season. Here she's surrounded by worker bees (infertile females). (Photo courtesy of Susan Cobey, Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis)
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What Has Five Eyes, Six Legs and Two Pairs of Wings?

December 16th, 2008
What has five eyes, six legs, two pairs of wings and can fly about 20 miles per hour? Got to be an insect, right? Right. But which one? More hints: Its been around for 30 million years. Its primary form of communication is a chemical called a pheromone. Well, that could be Okay, now it gets easier.
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