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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Queen and her court. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Those 'Immoral' Honey Bee Queens

March 13, 2012
The news headlines screamed "immoral" and "promiscuous." The story was not about a red light district or "Ladies of the Night" or even linked to humans. It was about honey bee queens. "Ladies of the Day," if you will.
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Kelly Hamby, seeking her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, works on spotted wing drosophila research in the Frank Zalom lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Post Here, Please

March 12, 2012
It promises to be both exciting and informative. Some 200 freshmen at the University of California, Davis will present their research posters on career explorations from 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13 in Freeborn Hall.
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A green sweat bee (Agapostemon texanus), on a cone flower at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pollinator Gardening!

March 8, 2012
If you want to learn about what bees do, and how gardeners can support healthy pollinator populations through simple gardening practice, then this is for you: Your Sustainable Backyard: Pollinator Gardening.
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Pamela Marrone is an international expert in agricultural biotechnology and bioscience
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How Pamela Marrone Does It

March 7, 2012
With the global population growing from 7 to 10 billion by 2050, there is an intense debate about how to best feed the world.
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