Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

This is an American rubyspot, Hetaerina americana, photographed at a small stream in the inner Coast Range. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)

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Dragonfly Enthusiasts, Unite! Open House Set Nov. 6 at Bohart Museum

November 2, 2022

If you dragonflies fascinate you, and you wish to know more about them, be sure to attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house at UC Davis on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, on "Dragonflies Rule!" The open house, free and family friendly, set from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Entomologist and butterfly collector Bill Patterson looks through a drawer during the international Lepidopterists' Society meeting in 2017 at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bill Patterson and Doris Brown: Friends of CA&ES and Friends of Bohart Museum

November 1, 2022

The UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES) annually singles out individuals "for their achievements, support, leadership and service to the college with an Award of Distinction honoring those contributions.

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Female Cryptocteniza kawtak discovered by UC Davis professor Jason Bond on a sandy beach at Moss Landing State Park, Monterey County. This is a new genus of trapdoor spider. (Photo by Jason Bond)

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Got Legs? Check Out Bohart Museum's Trapdoor Spider T-Shirt

October 31, 2022

Everyone's an arachnologist on Halloween! Ironically, some folks proclaim their hatred or disgust for all things spiders throughout the year, but when the Halloween season arrives, they're thinking webs, fangs and eight legs as perfect decor for their door.

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Inside a honey bee colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Congrats to Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page!

October 28, 2022

Congratulations to UC Davis-trained bee scientist Robert E. Page Jr., recipient of the 2022 Exceptional Emeriti Faculty Award from the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES).

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A queen bumble bee, Bombus vosenenskii, sipping nectar from an ice plant at Bodega Bay on Oct. 19, 2022. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Well, Hello There, Queen Bumble Bee!

October 27, 2022

So, there she is, an out-of-season queen bumble bee, Bombus vosenenskii, nectaring on an equally out-of-season ice plant blossom at Doran Regional Park, Bodega Bay. The yellow-faced bumble bee bursts from a neon pink blossom in the video below. It's Oct.

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