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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In Support of the UC Davis Bee Haven

March 31st, 2025
 A buzzworthy item...The UC Davis Bee Haven, maintained by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of the beneficiaries of the UC Davis Give Day, now underway through 4:59 p.m., Saturday, Apri1 12. This is the ninth annual philanthropic event coinciding with the campuswide UC…
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Medical entomologist Bruce Eldridge in 2007. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Entomology World Mourning the Loss of Bruce Eldridge

February 21st, 2025
The entomology world is mourning the loss of UC Davis Professor Emeritus Bruce Eldridge. As a medical entomologist, his exemplary military, academic and administrative career spanned more than six decades. He died Wednesday, Feb. 5 in Davis at age 91. Dr.
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A honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Tough Time for Beekeepers and Almond Growers

February 19th, 2025
It's a tough time for beekeepers and almond growers during California's almond pollination season. There's a nationwide bee shortage, rapidly increasing hive thefts and often uncooperative weather.
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