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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monarch butterfly watches as a honey bee crawls up a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Monarch and the Bee

September 21, 2011
The mighty Monarch butterfly and the industrious honey bee. How rare we see them together on the same flower. But that was the case last Friday at the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden planted next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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Susan Cobey checks out a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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ABC in Argentina

September 20, 2011
It's a matter of A, B, C. "A" is for Argentina. "B" is for bees. And "C" is for Cobey.
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Drone fly visiting the Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Will the Real Honey Bee Stand Up?

September 19, 2011
Will the real honey bee stand up? Not all bees are honey bees and not all floral visitors that look like bees are bees. Sometimes they're flies. A recent trip to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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