Bug Squad

"As bees vanish, bee heists multiply!" screamed a Feb 16th headline in The Washington Post. So true.

It's all over the news...the Aedes aeypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that predominantly feeds on humans.

Shades of Shirley Temple, maybe? A curly haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis could have been named for...drum roll..Shirley Temple. The curly haired tarantula, or Brachypelma albopilosum, proved a big hit at the Bohart Museum on Saturday, Feb.

What a treat to find not one--but five yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) foraging on a rosemary hedge on Valentine's Day. Feb. 14 was a perfect day for foragers, as the temperature climbed into the '70s, an unusually warm February day. The site: The Glen Cove Marina in Vallejo, Calif.

"Got 'em!" That's the message we've all been waiting for.