Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In Search of a Bumble Bee

August 3, 2010
If Franklin's bumble bee were a human, you might think it part of the Federal Witness Protection Program. That's because it's rarely seen. Its narrow distribution range covers parts of southern Oregon (Jackson, Douglas and Josephine counties) and northern California (Siskiyou and Trinity counties).
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This One Rocks

August 2, 2010
It's not red but it definitely rocks. It rocks because it's drought-tolerant and it rocks when honey bees and bumble bees visit it. And it's pretty. The Penstemon x Mexicali "Red Rocks" is a white-throated cherry-pink flower.
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A World Without Mosquitoes?

July 30, 2010
A world without mosquitoes? An article in the July 21st edition of Nature asked that very question. Author Janet Fang, an intern in Nature's Washington, D.C., office, wrote that "Malaria infects some 247 million people worldwide each year, and kills nearly one million.
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Bee-ing Aware

July 29, 2010
Are you ready to celebrate something really important in your life? Without this "something," your table fare would be sparse. What? Honey bees. And now, there's an official day to celebrate them. The second annual National Honey Bee Awareness Day is set Saturday, Aug. 21.
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Top-Notch Entomologists

July 28, 2010
Today was a day of recognition for three University of California entomology professors. The Entomological Society of America this morning announced the 2010 Fellows. Each year the governing board can elect up to 10 members as Fellows of the 6000-member society.
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