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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONARCH BUTTERFLY (Danaus plexippus), shown here in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa, is one of the butterflies that Art Shapiro has studied for the last 35 years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Fleeting Butterflies

January 19, 2010
It's good to see those fluttering butterflies back in the news again. But they are fleeting butterflies.
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BEEKEEPER Elizabeth "Liz" Frost of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, looks for ants on the tray she's just pulled out. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Unwanted Guests

January 18, 2010
Pull out the bottom tray (floor) of a beehive and you're likely to see lots of bee droppings, a little pollen, a few mites, a few dead bees and...a few scurrying ants. Ants find a bee hive nice and cozy, especially in the winter as temperatures drop. Beekeeper Elizabeth "Liz" Frost of the Harry H.
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THIS BUMBLE BEE, Bombus californicus, is among the native bees in the area near the American and Consumnes rivers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Dragonflies, Damselflies, Dermestids and Bees

January 15, 2010
Dragonflies, damselflies, dermestids and native bees. Does an entomological life get any better than this? Those are some of the topics to be discussed at the next meeting of the Northern California Entomological Society, set for Thursday, Feb.
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BUMBLE BEE expert Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, with his image of Franklin's bumble bee on his computer screen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Declining Bumble Bees

January 14, 2010
The bumble bee population is declining and some species are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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UC DAVIS RESEARCHER Ian Pearse in front of the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove, on Garrod Drive, UC Davis Arboretum. Pearse received a fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his oak tree research. Long interested in plant biochemistry, he joined the UC Davis graduate program in entomology in 2006, after studying a year in Germany with the Max Planck Society for Chemical Ecology. He received his bachelor of science degree in plant biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2004.(P
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Why Some and Not Others

January 13, 2010
When you visit the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove in the UC Davis Arboretum, you'll see one of the most diverse mature oak collections in the United States.
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