Bug Squad

The Sting. (c) Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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/bugsquad/index.cfm. The story behind "The Sting" is here: https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7735.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research by co-authors Maureen Page and Charlie Casey Nicholson scored the cover story of the American Journal of Botany, November 2021 edition. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Maureen Page: Impacts of Managed Honey Bees

May 24, 2022
UC Davis doctoral candidate Maureen Page, who investigates the impacts of increasing honey bee abundance on plant-pollinator interactions and plant pollination, will present her exit seminar on "Impacts of Managed Honey Bees on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms" at 10 a.m.
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The Mediterranean Fruit Fly, aka medfly, will be one of the topics when UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey presents a seminar on May 25. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark, UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM), UC Agriculture and Natural Resources)
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'Carey's Equality' Explained--and Much, Much More

May 23, 2022
Ever heard of Carey's Equality? Do you know who discovered it? That would be UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, who will present a departmental seminar at 4:10 p.m.
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