Bug Squad

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is helping to spread the biodiversity of insects.

Have you ever written a well-researched A-plus term paper and commented "I wish I could have been paid for that!" Well, now you can. A UC Davis professor will pay you--if you're a top-notch UC Davis student--to write (the equivalent of) a "term paper." UC Davis distinguished professor James R.

Seen any monarchs lately? No, not the British royal family: the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

Beauty at its best. If see the perennial shrub, Anisodontea sp. Strybing Beauty,' a member of the family Malvaceae (mallows), chances are you'll see bees pollinating the rosy pink blossoms. It's an early bloomer, a mid-bloomer and late bloomer. Yes, it blooms year-around. It's a year-around bloomer.

If you grow citrus, you've probably been introduced to the introduced European earwig, Forficula auricularia, the most common of the earwig species infesting the fruit here in California.