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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jorge Almeida Guimarães, president of CAPES, Ministry of Education, will visit UC Davis May 23.
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The Science of Exchanging

May 19, 2011
A touch of Brazil and a desire to exchange science and technology... That's what will happen on the UC Davis campus Monday, May 23 when a distinguished Brazilian scientist meets with UC Davis officials and the Brazilian consulate of San Francisco.
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Honey bee foraging on buckeye blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Lovely to Look at, but...

May 18, 2011
They're definitely attracted to it. Honey bees forage furiously on the California buckeye (Aesculus californica). It's not a good bee plant, though. It's poisonous.
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Soldier beetle (famiy Cantharidae) perched on rock purslane bud. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Soldier of Fortune

May 17, 2011
Gotta love those soldier beetles. They're among the good guys in the garden because they eat aphids and other soft-bodied insects. We've seen them on the lavender, on our nectarine tree and on our plum tree.
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Cuckoo bee on gum plant in Yolo County hedgerow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Researching the Hedgerows

May 16, 2011
Let's hear it for the hedgerows. Picture native plants, shrub and ground cover bordering agricultural fields and providing habitat for native bees and other pollinators. Not just bed and breakfast, but bed, breakfast, lunch and dinner. And snacks in between.
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