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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tabatha Yang, outreach and education coordinator at the Bohart Museum, wearing a Xerces Blue Butterfly shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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And Then There Were None

June 10, 2011
The Bohart Museum of Entomology has five. Nature has none. Zip. Zero. Zilch. The Xerces Blue Butterfly, which once thrived on the San Francisco Peninsula before urbanization chased it away, is extinct. There are no more.
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Aedes aegypti transmits dengue. (Photo courtesy of James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
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Zeroing in on Dengue

June 9, 2011
Deep in the heart of the Amazon forest, the dengue mosquito, Aedes aegpti, is on the prowl. So are researchers from the Thomas Scott lab at UC Davis.
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Copper eyes of a green lacewing glow in the late afternoon sun. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Chantilly Lace...

June 8, 2011
"Chantilly lace, have a pretty face..." When Jerry Lee Lewis belted out those lyrics in his No. 1 hit, "Chantilly Lace," back in 1972, he wasn't thinking of a green lacewing. Perhaps he should have been.
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Honey bee nectaring on Gaillardia at Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Color It Bright

June 6, 2011
Don't forget your sunglasses if you're heading over to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee-friendly demonstration garden at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. That's because the Gaillardia is stunningly bright and beautiful.
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