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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

Nature photographer Nicky Bay countered the Facebook post with this tweet. (Screen shot)

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Oh, Those Beach-Bum Spiders!

November 9, 2021

Halloween is over, but the misinformation spread about spiders never will be. Some folks just despise spiders. A Facebook post that went viral has resulted in USA Today setting the record straight today (Nov. 9) by conferring with UC Davis arachnologist Jason Bond.

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Entomologist Jeff Smith talks to visitors at a summer open house, pre-COVID precautions, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Smith curates the collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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How Jeff Smith’s 'Neighborly' Project Will Benefit the Bohart Museum of Entomology

November 8, 2021

A neighborly project by entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the worldwide Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California Davis, has ended on a sweet note that will benefit the museum.

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A monarch nectaring on tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in October, 2021 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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What's Happening with Our Western Monarchs?

November 5, 2021

"A count of the Western monarch butterfly population last winter saw a staggering drop in numbers, but there are hopeful signs the beautiful pollinators are adapting to a changing climate and ecology.

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A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on a blanket flower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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'President's Prize' for UC Davis Graduate Student's Presentation on Bumble Bees

November 4, 2021

"Native bees, including bumble bees are important pollinators but face threats from multiple sources, including agrochemical application," writes UC Davis doctoral student Danielle Rutkowski.

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The newly constructed HIVE, owned by Z Specialty Food, Woodland. (Photo by Elizabeth Luu)

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A Taste of Honey--and a Sip of Mead!

November 3, 2021

You may associate tasting room with wine in the Napa Valley, or olive oil in Fairfield, but now there's a tasting room in Woodland to sample honey and mead (honey wine). That's Z Specialty Food's newly constructed The HIVE, located at 1221 Harter Ave. Woodland.

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