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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emerita Lynn Kimsey, former director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, retired Jan. 31. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Program on Feb. 7: Celebrating Our Newest Emeriti

February 6, 2024
Seventy-three is the magic number. When Distinguished Professor Walter Leal celebrates the newest UC Davis faculty retirees with a special program at the International Center on Wednesday, Feb. 7, he'll pay tribute to 73 emeriti faculty in the cohort. Ten will serve as speakers.
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The cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, is white with small black dots on its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Who Won the 2024 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest?

February 5, 2024
Drum roll. We have a winner in the annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, in which the first person to collect the first cabbage white butterfly of the year in the three-county area of Yolo, Sacramento and Solano, wins a beer.
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These are two of the crocheted triceratops crafted by UC Davis animal biology major Jakob Lopez. He will hide them on UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday, Feb. 10.
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Find a Dinosaur at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day!

February 2, 2024
Who loves dinosaurs? And who especially loves triceratops, the dinosaur with that three-horned face that lived 66 to 68 million years ago in North America? Measuring about 26 to 30 feet long, it weighed 5.59.9 short tons, according to Wikipedia.
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