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.

Brendon Boudinot, as a Bug Doctor at UC Davis Picnic Day, answers questions from visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Doctoral Candidate Brendon Boudinot to Discuss Evolution of Insects at Exit Seminar

February 28, 2020

He will walk folks through the evolution of the insects out of the ocean and into the air, and from the air back to the ground (in the case of ants).

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Nematologists Christopher Pagan (foreground) and Corwin Parker, doctoral students in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answer questions from the crowd at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day and the Fascinating World of Nematodes

February 27, 2020

Do you know what a nematode is?

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A six-foot-long worker bee, the work of self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bee-ing There at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

February 26, 2020

The Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven drew scores of families at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a science-based day always held the Saturday of Presidents' Day weekend.

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Martin Hauser, senior insect biosystematist with the Plant Pest Daignostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, shows Madagascar hissing cockroaches to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Good Day to Learn About Science

February 25, 2020

They came, they saw, they learned. And in some cases, they conquered--they conquered their fear or avoidance of insects.

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The spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is one of the flies that Joanna Chiu, vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, studies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Learn About These Scientists' Research at UC Davis Seminar

February 24, 2020

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 26 will feature six Faculty Flash Talks on topics ranging from honey bees to tsetse flies to digger bees to trapdoor spiders to fruit flies. The seminar, set from 4:10 to 5 p.m.

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