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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.

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Highly Successful Biodiversity Museum Day

February 21, 2017

They saw bugs. They saw bones. They saw honey bees. They saw hawks. Those were just a few of the offering at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Saturday, Feb. 18. More than 3000 visitors checked out the offerings. The free family-friendly, science-based event, held from 9 a.m.

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Five Reasons Why All This Rain Is Bad for Almond Pollination Season

February 20, 2017

It's not a good time to be a California almond grower or a beekeeper. And it's definitely not a good time to be a honey bee.

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KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin

February 17, 2017

It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart Museum of Entomology and its parent organization, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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UC Davis Researcher: What Repellents and Doses Are Best to Prevent Zika Virus

February 16, 2017

If you're traveling toor living in--a Zika virus-infested area, it's far better to use DEET rather than Picaridin and to use higher, rather than lower, doses of DEET because lower doses do not work well with older mosquitoes, newly published research from the University of California, Davis and Reci...

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UC Davis Puts the 'Bio' in Biodiversity Museum Day

February 15, 2017

"Bio" means "life" or "living things," and that's just what you'll see on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. You'll see plenty of life and previous life, from bugs to bones--that is, from walking sticks to dinosaur bones.

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