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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lady beetles, aka ladybugs, keeping busy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What a Day! 2-22-22

February 22, 2022
Do good things come in twos? Well, yes. Today, 2-22-22, is a palindrome day. The numbers read the same way backward as they do forward. And it happens to be a Twos-Day. It takes two. What is a two? Two is a pair. Two is a couple. Two is a duet. Especially on a Twos-Day.
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This is a screen shot of a YouTube video, the work of Christine Casey, academic program management officer for the UC Davis Bee Haven.
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UC Davis Project Aims to Help Children Learn About Bees

February 16, 2022
The excited looks on the children's faces as they enter the bee garden. The wonder of it all as they touch a huge sculpture of a worker bee that anchors the garden. The information they glean, process and retain as they learn about the importance of bees.
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