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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey
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Unwrapped!

December 18, 2012
For more than a week, tarps protected the art from the elements. The artists would work on the installation daily, then stop and cover the art, resuming only when weather permitted.
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Entomologist Jeff Smith, associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, talks about a rose-haired tarantula at a Bohart open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bug Lovers, Unite!

December 17, 2012
If you like bugs and live in Northern California, you're in luck. The newly formed California Bug Club has scheduled its first meeting for 6 p.m., Satuday, Jan. 12 in the Elk Grove Library's meeting room, 8900 Elk Grove Blvd.
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Whitney Krupp with her beetle art work. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Exciting Insect Tales and Art

December 14, 2012
Deep in the forest, in a tree so old its bark is blackened and its roots are larger around than a man, a beetle flaps its wings.
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ONE: A sole honey bee visits a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Going for the Roses

December 13, 2012
Just call it going for the roses. Or a hot spot. In between the showers and the sunshine, the bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, emerge from their hives to forage.
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