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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/bugsquad/index.cfm. The story behind "The Sting" is here: https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7735.

Butterflies roosting in the Berkeley Aquatic Park on Nov. 26, 2015. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Art Shapiro: California's Monarchs 'on Life Support'

March 4, 2019

California's monarch population is rapidly declining. They're on life support. What actions should we take? A group of invited guests--invited by the Environmental Defense Fund--met Feb.

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UC Davis professor Jason Bond in his office in the Academic Surge Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Don't Miss 'Eight-Legged Wonders' Open House on March 9 at Bohart Museum, UC Davis

March 1, 2019

You've heard of the Seven Wonders of the World. But have you heard of the "Eight-Legged Wonders?" You won't want to miss the "Eight-Legged Wonders" open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 9 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis.

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Finding the queen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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How to Become a Beekeeper: UC Davis Offering Classes

February 28, 2019

Got hives? No, not yet? You can enroll in classes at the University of California, Davis, to learn how to keep bees and how to work your colonies.

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UC Davis employee Michele Belden shows her son, Cash, 5, some of the butterflies in the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Belden manages the Aggie Surplus, formerly Bargain Barn, on campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Visit to the Bohart Museum

February 27, 2019

When you're 5 years old, the world is full of wonders. Especially when your mother takes you to the Bohart Museum of Entomology to see the butterfly specimens.

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Natural history photographer Clay Bolt photographs Wallace’s Giant See in its nest. The bee nests in active termite mounds in the North Moluccas, Indonesia. (Copyright Simon Robson)

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In Search of the World's Biggest Bee: How It Came to 'Bee'

February 26, 2019

Imagine you're in an Indonesian rainforest and a humongous bee, with a wingspan of two and a half inches, flies over your head. The world's largest bee, known as Wallace's Giant Bee (Megachile pluto), considered extinct since 1981, lives. It's not extinct, after all. You probably read the news.

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