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)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, welcomes the crowd to the Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Scary Insects and Lovable Critters at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

October 31, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Scary critters with mandibles and lovable insects with antennae gathered at the Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davi, hosted by the Friends of the Bohart. There was the bee family: the queen bee, the drone and the worker bee.
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Honey doesn't come from a jar you buy in a store; it comes from a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey, I Hardly Know Ya! (But I Will)

October 30, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You can travel to China, Thailand, Madagascar and Brazil to taste rare, international honeys. Or you can do taste, discuss and analyze that honey during the Sensory Evaluation of Honey Course, hosted Nov.
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Gulf Fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae) are keeping busy on a Vacaville (Calif.) passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yes, They're Still There

October 29, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Yes, they're still there. More today than yesterday. That's how it goes in the Magical World of Butterflies. The Gulf Fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae) are keeping busy, and so is this insect wedding photographer trying to capture their images.
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Two Gulf Fritillaries meet on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Why Love Is Like a Butterfly

October 28, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Love is like a butterfly A rare and gentle thing --Love Is Like a Butterfly, Dolly Parton When Dolly Parton penned her song, "Love Is Like a Butterfly," she probably wasn't thinking of passion butterflies, Gulf Fritillaries.
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