Bug Squad

A daily (M-F) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008 and about the wonderful world of insects and those who study them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Meet Coco McFluffin, a resident tarantula in the Bohart Museum's live petting zoo. It's a Chaco golden knee tarantula (Grammostola pulchripes), native to Paraguay and Argentina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Many-Legged Wonders at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 9, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Last year the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open house themed "Eight-Legged Wonders." It featured primarily spiders. Next week the Bohart Museum is adding more legs. It's hosting an open house themed "Many-Legged Wonders." The event, free and open to the public, is set from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Professor Louie Yang in his Briggs Hall office, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Congratulations, UC Davis Professor Louie Yang: Outstanding Mentor

March 7, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congratulations to community ecologist Louie Yang, an innovative professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and the 2023 recipient of the Distinction in Student Mentoring Award, sponsored by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA).
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Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. poses with his wife Michelle (right) and Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at a 2022 ceremony honoring him as the recipient of the CA&ES Distinguished Emeritus Award. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page Knows How to Answer This Question

March 6, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you ask honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. what his favorite honey is, he'll point to his wife, Michelle. She--and any others near them--will smile every time! Fact is, Rob Page is our favorite honey bee geneticist, and he was just named the recipient of the 2023 C. W.
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