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PESTY YELLOWJACKET--A Western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica) sips water from a watering device at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Seeing Yellow (and Black)

October 5, 2010
So you're planning a big barbecue, a garden party or a wedding reception. You want to make sure that Mr. and Mrs. Yellowjacket and all their offspring--plus nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, cousins and assorted other relatives--aren't on the invite list.
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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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