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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Former UC Davis graduate student Fran Keller, now a professor at Folsom Lake College, met E. O. Wilson in May of 2005. She interviewed him for a presentation at the 2005 Entomological Society of America meeting.
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A Memorable Interview with E. O. Wilson

December 30, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
This is the story about an entomologist, a rhino, a woodpecker and E. O. Wilson. Back in May of 2005, entomologist Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College and a UC Davis doctoral alumnus, interviewed E. O.
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Randa Jabbour, first seminar speaker of the quarter

UC Davis Department of Entomology Rolling Out the Seminar Schedule

December 27, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ready for the new year? The UC Davis Department of Nematology's winter quarter seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m., beginning Jan. 5 and continuing through March 9, announced seminar coordinator and nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor.
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Santa greets a monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. This one is a male. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...Chrysalis

December 24, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's beginning to look a lot like...chrysalis. It didn't "look at all like chrysalis" this year in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif. We spotted only one monarch--repeat, only one monarch--and it fluttered around and finally oviposited on our milkweed. The eggs vanished.
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