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)
Monarch laying an egg in Vacaville on Oct. 9. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Good News on the Monarch Butterfly Front

October 22, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
She came, she saw, she oviposited, she nectared and she left. That's the extent of our sole monarch sighting in our Vacaville pollinator garden this year. This occurred Oct. 9.
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Art work by Christine Melvin, an associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Can you identify the flora and fauna?

The Boh-Art Drawing Helps Mark an Important Anniversary

October 21, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Insect enthusiasts will love the Bohart Museum of Entomology's latest art piece, commissioned as part of the museum's 75th anniversary. A small graphic is posted on the Bohart Museum website with a link to a large PDF that you can download and color.
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Look closely and you'll see a jumping spider huddled in the petals of this yellow rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Portrait of a Jumping Spider

October 19, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Gotta love those spiders. We recently saw an adorable jumping spider (aren't all jumping spiders adorable?) huddled or cuddled (your preference) within a layer of yellow rose petals. It didn't look like a poster child for Halloween. It looked right at home. It's still there.
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A honey bee frantically struggles to escape from a reproductive chamber of a milkweed blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey

Hey, Wait, Take Me With You!

October 18, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hey, wait, take me with you! No, leave me alone! Let me go! Have you ever seen insects struggling to free themselves from the reproductive chamber of a milkweed blossom?
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