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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

YELLOW-FACED BUMBLE BEE, Bombus vosnesenskii, gathers nectar from a tower of jewels. The Cameron study looked at three species of western bumble bees, including this species. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Declining Bumble Bees: Alarming

January 4, 2011

Some species of bumble bees are disappearing at an alarming rate. And that, in itself, is alarming. A three-year study published Jan.

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HONEY BEE nectaring salvia. This one is Salvia leucantha or "Mexican sage." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Salivating the Salvia

January 3, 2011

Hmm, ever wonder why honey bees love salvia? Are they going for that nectar or are they going for something else? Salvia divinorum, which like all the salvias, is a member of the mint family, is gaining notoriety for its hallucinogenic effects.

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2010 CHAMPIONSHIP LINNAEAN TEAM is Ohio State. From left are Joshua Bryant, Kaitlin Uppstrom, Nicola Gallagher and Glene Mynhardt, battling with UC Davis. Ryan Caesar (not pictured) later participated on the team. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Name That Bug!

December 31, 2010

Emcee Tom Turpin of Purdue University stood at the podium and acknowledged he might mispronounce an entomology student's name. "If it sounds anything like your name and Im looking at you, thats you.

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To Catch a Cabbage White

December 30, 2010

So you're out roaming the countryside or cityscape in Solano, Yolo or Sacramento counties at the start of the new year and you encounter a Cabbage White butterfly.

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ARTIST Christopher Marley presented a talk on "Aesthetic Entomology" at the 58th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Insect Art

December 29, 2010

You'd never know by his stunning art work that Christopher Marley once hated insects. (At right: a portion of his spectacular "Coleoptera Mosaic.

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