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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PONDERING A QUESTION are (from left) the UC Riverside team of Jennifer Henke, Casey Butler, Jason Mottern and Rebeccah Waterworth. UC Riverside won the Linnaean Games. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Answers

November 24th, 2008
Okay, what are the answers? In a prior blog, we listed several questions asked at the Linnaean Games, a college-bowl type of quiz thats a traditional part of the Entomological Society of Americas annual meeting. You have to know insect facts and figures and ESA history to win.
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THE CURL--A honey bee, curled like a comma, nectars purple sage. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Curl

November 21st, 2008
In football lingo, a curl is a spin on a football, which makes it swerve when it's kicked. Honey bees can also "curl." I took this photo today of a lone bee curled on purple sage. The worker bee was gathering nectar in the summerlike weather.
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PESIDENT'S PRIZE--Michael Branstetter, a doctoral candidate in entomology at the University of California, Davis, won a coveted President's Prize for his presentation on ants at the Entomological Society of America's 56th annual meeting, held Nov. 16-19 in Reno. His major professor is Phil Ward. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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President's Prize

November 20th, 2008
He knows his ants. Michael Branstetter, a doctoral candidate in entomology at the University of California, Davis, won a coveted Presidents Prize for his oral presentation on ants at the 56th annual Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Reno.
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SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE--A spotted cucumber beetle on a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sideways

November 19th, 2008
The movie, "Sideways," has nothing on a spotted cucumber beetle climbing up, down and sideways on a rock purslane. The spotted cucumber beetle is a pest, while the rock purslane has to be among the world's most beautiful flowers. (And also very attractive to insects.
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LINNAEAN GAMES MODERATOR--Purdue entomology professor Tom Turpin moderates the annual Linnaean Games, part of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Let the Games Begin

November 18th, 2008
Quick! Name three states that have no official state insect. That was one of the questions at the Linnaean Games, a traditional part of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting. This year's meeting, the 56th annual, is now under way in Reno. The Linnaean Games have begun.
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