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

A honey bee in flight, packing red pollen from a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Learn About the Diversity of Bees in This UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month Program

February 16, 2021

Talk about diverse. The bee world exemplifies diversity and the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month, being celebrated throughout the month of February, wouldn't exemplify diversity without them.

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The Asian giant hornet, which the news media named "murder hornet." (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture)

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Murder Hornets: Murder in the First Degree?

February 15, 2021

Want to learn about "murder hornets?" Entomologists cringe every time someone substitutes the moniker, "murder hornet," for the Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia.

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Six-year-old Toco Yang of Davis shows a page he colored from the Plant-Insect Interactions Coloring Book, the work of a team from the Santiago Ramirez lab, UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology.

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Color This Fantastic! A Coloring Book About Insect-Plant Interactions

February 12, 2021

Color this fantastic! As part of the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month, the Santiago Ramirez lab, UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, has created a 10-page Plant-Insect Interactions Coloring Book.

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Nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presenting a video on nematology. (Screen shot)

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The Science of Nematodes, Butterflies, Millipedes and Arachnids

February 11, 2021

Do you know what a nematode is? That's a question that nematologists are frequently asked.

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UC Davis professor Phil Ward looking for ants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Let's All Appreciate Ants! Don't Miss These Biodiversity Museum Programs

February 10, 2021

Let's take a moment to appreciate ants.

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