Bug Squad

Apiculturists and beekeepers will love this T-shirt. So will anyone else who has an avid interest in honey bees, or even a passing interest. It's all the buzz.

The drone fly, aka European hover fly, aka syrphid fly, doesn't get as much press as the other drone, the unmanned aircraft. But the drone fly (Eristalis tenax), about the size of a honey bee and often mistaken for a honey bee, makes for great in-flight photos.

Oh, the myths about insects and spiders! It was a fun and educational afternoon when the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open house last Sunday. Visitors checked out the displays, asked the entomologists and staff questions, and looked over the list of myths.

Myths and gifts... When the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts its open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, the theme will be "Insect Myths.

Most of us think about bats at least twice a year: during National Pollinator Week, when bees, beetles, butterflies and bats beckon, and on Halloween, when bats mingle with the witches, ghosts, ghouls, goblins and other things that go bump in the night. Bats are pollinators? Definitely.