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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honey bee working the germander. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Thank Goodness for Germanders

December 5, 2012
Those of us addicted to photographing honey bees hate it when the cold, rainy California weather settles in. December and January are the worst for capturing images of bees outside their hives.
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Kathleen Socolofsky, director of the UC Davis Arboreteum, at a ceremony honoring the donors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Adopt a Bug

December 4, 2012
Wouldn't you know it, the Argentine ant is among the last to go. Nature's Gallery, a ceramic mosaic mural installed in the UC Davis Arboretum's Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, is gathering lots of visitors--and lots of donors.
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Bruce Hammock lab: a victim of the rainstorm. (Photo by Bruce Hammock)
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Not That Kind of Water

December 3, 2012
It's no secret that Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, loves the water. Well, there's white-water kayaking for one. And, two, his water balloon battles.
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Male yellowjacket heads toward a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Kissin' Cousins

November 30, 2012
What's that? A honey bee and a male yellowjacket on the same blossom? That's exactly what we saw Nov. 14 at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.
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Honey bee on a blanket flower, Galliardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Buzz About Pesticides

November 29, 2012
"Reducing the Usage of Bee-Killing Pesticides in My Community." That's the topic--and a good one it is--of the 2013 4-H Honey Bee Essay Contest, sponsored by The Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees.
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