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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postdoctoral research scientist James Starrett, of the arachnology lab of Professor Jason Bond, director of the Bohart Museum, gets ready to eat a crickette. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pass the Crickets, Please!

November 7, 2024
"Crickets, anyone? Free sample!" Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, sits at a table at a Bohart open house and points to a line of small paper cups, each containing three "Crickettes.
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Doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers explains how a dragonfly catches prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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An Introduction to Dragonflies and Spiders

November 5, 2024
Predators employ a diversity of behavioral and morphological adaptations to successfully capture their insect prey, UC Davis doctoral candidates Christofer Brothers and Emma Em Jochim told the crowd at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house.
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Tabatha Yang (left) the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator, with UC Davis student and Bohart intern, Jasmine Chow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Intricate Craft of Making a Spider Web

November 4, 2024
If you've ever closely examined a spider web, you know how incredible they are. But if you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Saturday, you could make a spider web--using chopsticks and colorful yarn.
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Eliza Litsey holds a master's degree in entomology from UC Davis.
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Eliza Litsey to Discuss a Novel Queen Honey Bee Treatment

November 1, 2024
If you're curious about honey bees, queens and juvenile hormones, you'll want to attend or hear the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) seminar to be presented by apiculturist Eliza Litsey, a former graduate student in the honey bee lab of Elina Lastro Nio.
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