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)

The wonder of a stick insect, aka walking stick, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

BioDivDay: Can't Wait to See You!

March 4, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

BioDivDay is Sunday. March 6 at the UC Davis Conference Center: Can't wait to see you! That's the message the organizers of the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day are spreading throughout social media.

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Annie, the scorpion, under natural light. She is a Anuroctonus pococki. (Photo by Emma Jochim)

Meet Awesome Annie, the Scorpion, at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

March 3, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Are you ready to meet awesome "Annie" at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6? You won't want to cuddle her, though. Annie is a pet scorpion belonging to Emma Jochim, a second-year doctoral student n the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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Five members of Jason Bond lab at the UC Quail Ridge Reserve, Napa County. From left are Lacie Newton, Xavier Zahnle, Emma Jochim, Lisa Chamberland, and Jim Starrett. Not pictured are the newest lab members Iris Bright and Megan Ma.

Of Butterflies and Hornets and Spiders and Millipedes

March 2, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

If you're a wanna-be entomologist or arachnologist, or just curious about insects and arachnids, you'll love the live animals and specimens that will showcased in the Bohart Museum of Entomology booth at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.

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A brilliant day in an Esparto almond orchard on Feb. 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Almond Pollination Season Ought to Be About Almond Pollination

March 1, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

When friends own almond acreage, and invite you to see the bees and the blossoms on a brilliant day in mid-February, you go. Of course, you go. Almond pollination season is a delight to see and record. Almonds rank No.

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WSU postdoctoral research scholar Erica Henry, shown here on a field trip, will present a UC Davis seminar on March 2 on "Insect Conservation in an Uncertain Future."

UC Davis Seminar: 'Insect Conservation in an Uncertain Future'

February 28, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

There may or may not be a silver lining for conservationists trying to save the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly, but postdoctoral research scholar Erica Henry, of Washington State University (WSU), is among those trying to do so.

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