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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENTOMOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS Amy Morice and James Harwood check out a camera. They were among the students in James R. Carey's class on "How to Make an Insect Collection." The video clips are now posted on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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And All Within 10 Minutes

September 21, 2010
When you were first asked/requested/urged/required to make an insect collection, where did you go for information? How did you learn how to collect, display and preserve insects?
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BLACK WIDOW SPIDER touches her gumdrop-sized egg sac, suspended from her web in a UC Davis parking garage. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Black Widow!

September 20, 2010
The very presence of a black widow spider, shiny black with a globe-shaped abdomen, strikes fear in most people. And not just on Halloween.
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HONEY BEE nectaring lavender at the Mostly Natives Nursery, Tomales. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Where the Bees Are

September 17, 2010
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty, emphasizes that if you're planting flowers to attract bees--and you should--be sure to remember them in the fall--not just the spring and summer. In the fall, food is scarce.
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BEE GONE--A webweaving spider with "breakfast," a honey bee in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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She Didn't Come Home Last Night

September 16, 2010
She didn't come home last night. The little honey bee at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis, wound up in a spider's stomach.
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'The Human Bee Hive'

September 15, 2010
Many beekeepers keep bees, but Norman Gary wears them. Gary, who received his doctorate in entomology (apiculture) from Cornell University, served as a professor at the University of California, Davis for 32 years, retiring in 1994.
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