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)

A Buggy Kind of Christmas: A Poem Revisited

December 25, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's a buggy kind of Christmas. Mussen/Garvey style. You've heard "The 12 Days of Christmas," beginning with a single "partridge in a pear tree" and ending with "12 drummers drumming.
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The Real Reason Why Santa Is Hurrying Down the Chimney

December 24, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
So, hurry down the chimney, tonight! So goes a line from "Santa Baby." The songwriters (J. Javits, P. Springer and T. Springer) listed all the good presents they wanted Santa to bring: a sable, a '54 convertible (light blue, please!), a yacht, a duplex and a deed to a platinum mine.
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Saving the Monarchs: Saving the Sacred Trees

December 23, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We can help save the monarch butterflies by saving the "sacred" trees in central Mexico where most of the migrating population overwinters. Science journalist Janet Marinelli, writing in Yalee360, said it well in her Dec. 21st piece, "To Protect Monarch: a Plan to Save the Sacred Firs.
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Why Wild Bees Are in Trouble

December 21, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Our nation's wild bees--which include bumble bees, squash bees and leafcutter bees--are in trouble. A newly published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals just how much trouble.
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