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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.

A honey bee in flight, as she adjusts her pollen load and cleans her tongue or proboscis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Why Those Multi-Tasking Honey Bees Have Nothing on Amina Harris

April 25, 2018

If you can't chew gum and walk at the same time, think about the multi-tasking honey bee.

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Entomologist and Bohart associate Jeff Smith introduces a crowd to Snuggles, a rose-haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bohart Museum Picnic Day: Bugging Out

April 24, 2018

They came. They saw. They bugged out.

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UC Davis alumnus Matt Forister, McMinn Professor of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, will present a seminar at UC Davis on Wednesday, April 25 on his work with understanding the colonization of alfalfa by the Melissa blue butterfly.

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Matt Forister: Melissa Blue Butterfly and Colonization of Alfalfa

April 23, 2018

Want to learn more about the Melissa blue butterfly and its colonization of alfalfa?

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Bohart Museum associate Wade Spencer with his desert hair scorpion, Celeste, poses with the mascot, "Hamburger Cow Patty." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Who Invited Bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day?

April 20, 2018

Who invited bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day?

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Entomology student and Bohart Museum associate Wade Spencer grimaces for the camera as he holds a beaver pelt and points to where a parasite lives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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You Won't Believe What You'll See at the Bohart Museum on Picnic Day

April 19, 2018

Take heed. The 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day theme is Where the Sun Shines. The sun is expected to shine throughout much of the campus on Picnic Day, Saturday, April 21, but it won't be shining in this place. Not a chance. It's where the sun doesn't shine. Think "south end of a beaver.

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