Bug Squad

 Several weeks ago, Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, was curating micro-Lepidoptera from the Bohart scientists' collecting trip to Papua New Guinea. He still is. And what incredible work he is doing.  The Bohart's expedition to Papua…

 Got an ant question?Professor Phil Ward, a myrmecologist or ant scientist with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be featured at the Davis Science Café on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Billed as "A Conversation with Professor Phil Ward," the event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the G Street…

 What are you doing on California Biodiversity Day? That's Saturday, Sept. 6, but the celebration of diverse life continues through Monday, Sept. 14.You can join the  Find 30 Species for California Biodiversity Day project on iNaturalist, and submit observations of 30 wild species between…

 The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is displaying specimens of California’s native insects, including the California dogface butterfly, in the Children’s Section of the Fairfield Civic Center Library through Wednesday, Sept. 10. Library associate Galila Kitzes…

 Was she protesting, preying or praying? A very large praying mantis showed up at a pro-democracy event in Rio Vista, Calif., on Labor Day.The mantis sailed over my head, "like a bird on the wing," and then dropped to the ground, landing on rough gravel. It looked too heavy and clumsy to fly. But…