Bug Squad

Hands down, or hands up, those walking sticks in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo are favorites among children and adults alike. The walking sticks, or stick insects, belong to the order Phasmatodea.

There she was, a beautiful yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging Feb. 27 on African trailing daisies, Osteospermum fruticosum, in the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia, Calif.

Accolades continue to flow.

Medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT), is excited to organize a wetland symposium, set Sunday, March 17 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the UC Davis Conference Center, located on campus at 550 Alumni Lane.

If you like learning about trapdoor spiders, be sure to read the newly published research from the arachnology laboratory of Professor Jason Bond, University of California, Davis.