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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED DRAGONFLY--UC Davis entomologist Michael Parrella submitted this photograph in the Insect Salon juried photography show at the Entomological Society of America's 56th annual meeting, held last November in Reno. Photographers from around the world entered the competition. Parrella is an associate dean of agricultural sciences at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology and environmental horticulture at UC Davis. (Photo by Michael Parrella)
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Art Show: A Fusion of Art and Science

January 23, 2009
If you like to combine art with science, here you go. In keeping with the theme, The Consilience of Art And Science," the Pence Gallery and the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program are sponsoring a juried exhibition, open to all artists and scientists.
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LADYBUG STAGES--These photos were taken Jan. 19 in Fairfield, Solano County, California. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Ladybugs Are Out

January 21, 2009
Yes, they are. The ladybugs are out, at least in some parts of Northern California. We received an email last week from a professional wildlife photographer from Germany who wants to film hibernating ladybugs in February. He's on a magazine assignment.
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CABBAGE WHITE BUTTERFLY--This is a Pieris rapae similar to what UC Davis professor Art Shapiro found Jan. 20. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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He Did It!

January 20, 2009
He did it. I knew he would Hardly anyone can beat University of California, Davis professor Arthur Shapiro in finding the first cabbage white butterfly of the year. For the past 38 years, he's been hosting a "Beer-for-Butterfly" contest.
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HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU--A praying mantis shows no fear. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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On Your Knees!

January 19, 2009
The praying mantis glared at me. It was not afraid of me, my camera, or my jockeying around to get a better position. When I captured the image (below) last fall in a neighbor's garden, I decided that in 2009, I would get my very own praying mantis. Or maybe dozens of them.
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