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.

Bug banner at Briggs beckons. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Is There a Doctor in the House?

April 20, 2012

Is there a doctor in the house? If you head over to the UC Davis Department of Entomology's displays at Briggs Hall and at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Saturday, April 21 during the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day, you'll find them. Bug doctors. Lots of them. They'll be there from 10 a.m.

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Malay Lacewing butterfly (Cethosia hypsea). Photographed by Richard Tenaza and identified by professor/butterfly expert Arthur Shapiro of UC Davis.

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The Sounds of a Rainforest

April 19, 2012

When you listen to a rainforest, what do you hear? What does it tell you? Those who attend the free public event, Mentawai: Listening to the Rainforest, on Sunday, April 22 on the UC Davis campus will find out.

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UC Davis honey ready to be extracted last fall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Show Me the Honey! (And Taste It, Too!)

April 18, 2012

One of the six honey varieties that the UC Davis Department of Entomology will serve during the campuswide 98th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 21 is...drum roll...cactus honey. Yes, you heard that right. Cactus honey.

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Honey bees ready to swarm at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Unhappy Ending

April 17, 2012

Bee swarms don't always have happy endings. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology was quoted in a news story published today about a bee swarm on a Stockton ballfield.

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Pea aphids on a rose leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Oh, Those Pestiferous Aphids!

April 16, 2012

By now, you're probably seen enough aphids to last you for the entire year. That's why we're looking forward to hearing Bryony Bonning speak on "Novel Toxin Delivery Strategies for Management of Pestiferous Aphids" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar, scheduled from 12:10 to 1 p.m.

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