Bug Squad

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.

The California Master Beekeeper Program will provide a bee observation hive at the California Honey Festival. Here a queen and her retinue can be seen through the glass. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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What's That Buzz? California Honey Festival

May 5, 2022

Hear that buzz? See those bees? Taste that honey? When the California Honey Festival takes place Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland, you'll hear the buzz, see the buzz, and sample honey.

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Marine biologist Leta Myers, who clerked at the Dixon May Fair judging, holds a photo by Vaca Valley 4-H'er Matthew Agbayani. It depicts a honey bee and a syrphid fly on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bees, Butterflies and Beetles and More at Dixon May Fair

May 4, 2022

Bees, butterflies and beetles will be well represented at the 145th annual Dixon May Fair, which opens Thursday, May 5 for a four-day run (May 5-8) after a two-year hiatus.

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Postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukranian dipterist, created this fly diversity display as a traveling exhibit for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Fly Diversity Explained With Ukrainian Colors

May 3, 2022

When officials at the Bohart Museum of Entomology asked UC Davis students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows if they would like to create a scientific traveling display case of insect specimens, one of those answering the call was postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomo...

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Scott McArt of Cornell will speak on "Pesticide Risk to Pollinators: What We Know and What We Need to Know Better" at the Wednesday, May 4 virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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Scott McArt: The Risk of Pesticides to Pollinators

May 2, 2022

"The use of synthetic chemical pesticides is central to current agricultural practices worldwide.

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Kyle Elshoff of the UC Davis Entomology Club retrieves a winning roach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Run, Roaches, Run!

April 29, 2022

Folks will do just about anything to remove cockroaches from their homes, but when it comes to UC Davis Picnic Day, you can't remove people from them. Nor would UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology want that. Roach Races are an integral part of Picnic Day.

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