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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWBORN BEE: What's in store for this newborn bee and her family? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Honey Bees: 'Are Things Really That Bad?

May 11, 2009
You wont want to miss the seminar on Bee Problems and Colony Losses on Wednesday, May 13 in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis. If you cant make it in person, you can listen to it live via Webinar.
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HONEY BEES--Checking the health of the honey bees at a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis is Elizabeth Frost (right), junior specialist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Smoking Gun

May 8, 2009
A honey bee newsletter, "From the UC Apiaries" newsletter, written by Cooperative Extension Apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty, provides linformative and educational information for beekeepers and those interested in the plight of the honey bee.
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Brian Turner, outreach coordinator at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows a male Giant New Guinea Walking Stick. Six species of insects from the Bohart are housed at the Dixon May Fair, May 7-10. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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These Walking Sticks Are Insects

May 7, 2009
Brian Turner, outreach coordinator at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis campus, is used to walking around with a walking stick. Not just any walking stick. The Giant New Guinea Walking Stick and the Vietnamese Walking Stick.
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A HONEY BEE decorates a quilt at the 134th annual Dixon May Fair. Here Interior Living Showcase superintendent Debee Lamont gets ready to hang the quilt. It's the work of Shirley Geertson of Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Insects Are Nearly Everywhere

May 6, 2009
"Insects are the most successful animals that have ever existed on Earth and have been around for just over 400 million years," writes George Gavin in Insects, an American Nature Guide published by Smithmark Publishers, N.Y.
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ROCK PURSLANE (Calandrinia grandiflora) opens in the morning sun. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Like a Rock

May 5, 2009
The rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora) attracts its share of insects. This morning the brilliant magenta blossoms drew honey bees, carpenter bees and hover flies.
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