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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

BOHART MUSEUM education and outreach coordinator Tabatha Yang (left) watches Toby Thornton's delight in a green walking stick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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This Bug's for You at the Bohart

November 9, 2010

If youre into bugs, the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus has plenty of them. Butterflies? Check. Dragonflies? Check. Native bees? Check.

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DENGUE MOSQUITO--The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits the virus that causes dengue fever. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

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On the Trail of Dengue

November 8, 2010

Medical entomologist Thomas Scott (right), professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and a newly elected fellow of the Entomological Society of America, knows his foe well. His foe? The day-biting, tiger-striped mosquito, Aedes aegypti.

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UC DAVIS graduate student Matan Shelomi, who studies with major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, scored a big hit in this costume. "He looks just like Billy the Exterminator!" Kimsey exclaimed. (Photo by Louie Yang)

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What Entomologists Do to Have Fun

November 5, 2010

Ghouls just like to have fun at Halloween. So do entomologists. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology. located at 1124 Academic Surge, University of California, Davis, holds its annual Halloween Open House, guests are in for a real treat. A few tricks, too--in the form of tricky costumes.

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BETWEEN THE BRANCHES--A beehive column, as seen through the branches of an olive tree at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. The bee box (fourth from bottom) shows a honey bee in flight with a close-up below. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Fly By

November 4, 2010

What's a fly doing there? Just soaking up the sun. A fly that landed on one of the two colorfully painted beehive columns that grace the entrance to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the University of California, Davis, seemed like part of the scene.

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EMERITUS PROFESSOR Hugh Dingle, shown here wearing one of his favorite "bug" shirts, will discuss the rapidly evolving soapberry bug at a noon seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Soapberry Bugs: Evolution in Action

November 3, 2010

Briggs Hall at UC Davis is a good place to learn about soapberry bugs. That would be "the rapidly evolving soapberry bugs." Hugh Dingle, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.

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