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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red-veined meadowhawk, Sympetrum madidum, perches on a stake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Love Those Dragonflies!

May 20, 2014
Don't you just love it when a dragonfly perches on a stake in your back yard and decides to stay for a while? That's what happened Sunday.
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Honey bee foraging on a pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bee Crisis Explained

May 19, 2014
As honey bees go about their bee-ness, foraging among the pomegranate and other blossoms here in California, internationally recognized entomologist May Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is preparing for her Storer Lecture...
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A honey bee, loaded with pollen, heads for Kniphofia "Christmas Cheer." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey
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Looking for Bee Plants?

May 16, 2014
If you're thinking about adding more bee friendly plants to your garden but you're concerned about the drought, the UC Davis Arboretum has the answers. The arboretum will host its public spring clearance plant sale on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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A Valley carpenter bee receives a brush of pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pollen Power

May 15, 2014
Female Valley carpenter bees are solid black--except when they're foraging around passion flowers. Then they're black and yellow--the yellow being the color of the pollen transferred to their thorax. Beautiful? Absolutely.
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