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)

"On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 5 golden bees." This is one of them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Time to Revisit 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'

December 16, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

It's time to revisit the "13 Bugs of Christmas!" Back in 2010, two innovators with the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology) decided that "The 12 Days of Christmas" ought to be replaced with insects.

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Sweet! The UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center is selling honey and offering free recipes.

Something Sweet and Something Neat: Entomological Holiday Gifts at UC Davis

December 14, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Just call these "something sweet" and "something neat." Yesterday on Bug Squad we featured holiday gifts available at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis--from calendars, t-shirts and sweatshirts to books, jewelry, posters, and insect-collecting equipment.

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Bohart associate Emma Cluff cuddles a tardigrade, one of the stuffed animals available for sale in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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In Search of the Perfect Entomological Gift

December 13, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

If you're looking for the perfect "bugly" entomological gift, be sure to stop by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis.

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Professor Thomas Pape of the Natural History Museum of Denmark and chair of the Council for the International Congresses of Dipterology, presents the top student prize to Jessica Gillung. The next Congress takes place in 2022 in California.

Jessica Gillung's Research on Spider Flies: A Tale of Conflict and Uncertainty

December 12, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

When UC Davis doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung, who studies the parasitoid flies commonly known as spider flies, presents her exit seminar on Friday, Dec. 14, it's bound to draw widespread interest. Her research already has.

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A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Timely Topic and None Too Soon: The Troubling State of Pollinators

December 11, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

What a timely topic--and none too soon! And the University of California, Davis, is a major part of it.

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