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The Sting. (c) Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010 CHAMPIONSHIP LINNAEAN TEAM is Ohio State. From left are Joshua Bryant, Kaitlin Uppstrom, Nicola Gallagher and Glene Mynhardt, battling with UC Davis. Ryan Caesar (not pictured) later participated on the team. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Name That Bug!

December 31, 2010
Emcee Tom Turpin of Purdue University stood at the podium and acknowledged he might mispronounce an entomology student's name. "If it sounds anything like your name and Im looking at you, thats you.
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To Catch a Cabbage White

December 30, 2010
So you're out roaming the countryside or cityscape in Solano, Yolo or Sacramento counties at the start of the new year and you encounter a Cabbage White butterfly.
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ARTIST Christopher Marley presented a talk on "Aesthetic Entomology" at the 58th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Insect Art

December 29, 2010
You'd never know by his stunning art work that Christopher Marley once hated insects. (At right: a portion of his spectacular "Coleoptera Mosaic.
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGISTS John Hildebrand (left) of the University of Arizona and Walter Leal of the University of California, Davis, organized and moderated a lively discussion at their seminar at the Entomological Society of America's 58th annual meeting, held recently in San Diego. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Interpreting the Chemical Cues

December 28, 2010
Most of us just finished a whirlwind of olfaction and taste during the holidays, but in the Walter Leal lab at the University of California, Davis, it's a full-time commitment.
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Lessons from the Ants

December 27, 2010
We can learn from the ants. Indeed, we can take lessons from the ants, according to ecologist Rob Dunn (right), assistant professor in the Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
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