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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Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera section at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions from UC Biodiversity Museum Day visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

February Is UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month!

January 27, 2021
The 10th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a science-based day celebrating the diversity of life, will sport a new look and a longer life this year. It won't be a single day for you to visit all the museums and collections on campus and talk to the scientists.
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Eric Conn, a noted plant biochemist, nurtured the UC Davis Arborteum’s acacias for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. He died in 2017 at age 94. (UC Davis Photo)

UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games Set--Davis and Dublin

January 26, 2021
What a novel idea! UCD vs. UCD! One is the University of California, Davis, or UCD. The other: University College Dublin, or UCD. Just add "UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games," and you get a friendly global rivalry between undergraduate biochemistry students at the two universities.
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Bernie Sanders in front of the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus.

Bernie Sanders Really Did Visit UC Davis

January 22, 2021
As a presidential candidate, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders visited the UC Davis campus in 2016. He's back--not as a presidential candidate but as a meme. A meme? It all started when photographer Brendan Smialowski for Getty Images photographed him at President Joe Biden's inauguration.
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Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

In Search of Butterflies

January 21, 2021
Oh, to find a butterfly in January. Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, knows where they are. As mentioned in a previous Bug Squad blog, he spotted a cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on Jan.
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