Bug Squad

Gates Canyon, located just outside the city of Vacaville, in Solano County, Calif., is quite the ecosystem.

UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology didn't sponsor his annual "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest" this year, but if he had, an eight-year-old Davis boy would have been the runner-up.

How little we know about monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus... And how long misinformation can linger...

Can you imagine typing a huge grant application on an 132-year-old "type writer?" Make that 986 pages, equal to a four-inch-thick document. No one visiting the Briggs Hall office of UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock can imagine that, either.

It's Friday Fly Day--and time to post images of a syrphid fly. Syrphid flies, often mistaken for honey bees, are pollinators, too. Also known as flower flies and hover flies, syrphids hover over a flower before touching down.