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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pollen Power

April 21, 2010
Talk about pollen power. When honey bees forage among the birds eyes, they're a delight to see. They dive into the yellow-throated lavender flowers and emerge covered with a blue-gray pollen.
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GIGANTIC ARTICHOKE PLANTS fill one of the planters at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bee Connected: Save the Date

April 20, 2010
Bee connected; save the date. The grand opening of the half-acre Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 11. The honey bees already know it's there.
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QUEEN BUMBLE BEE, a yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) heads down the tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What a Show!

April 19, 2010
Everybody loves a bumble bee. Especially the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. And especially a queen.
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A YOUNG ITALIAN honey bee nectaring lavender on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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If You Cotton to Honey...

April 16, 2010
If you cotton to honey, you'll want to head over to Briggs Hall tomorrow (Saturday, April 17) during the 96th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. You can sample cotton honey, as well as five other flavors, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Stings Happen

April 15, 2010
When some folks think of a honey bee, they immediately think of stings. Not pollination, not honey, not colony collapse disorder, but stings. To beekeepers, stings are a minor irritation, or perhaps not an irritation at all. It's just something that happens in an occupation.
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