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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Future beekeeper Emily Fishback with her beekeeper-father Brian Fishback of Wilton, who provided the bee observation hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey of an Event!

December 7, 2011
If you missed the Honey! event sponsored by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and held recently in the UC Davis Conference Center, not to worry. James R.
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Honey bees working the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee Gone!

December 2, 2011
What a remarkable project a biologist launched in Kenya involving honey bees. It all began with farmers complaining that migratory elephants were raiding their crops and destroying their livelihood.
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Larvae of a blister beetle, Meloe franciscanus on a digger bee, Habropoda pallida. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz, used with permission))

Phoresy!

December 1, 2011
Phoresy! If that word is not in your everyday vocabulary, just think of a symbiotic relationship where one organism transports another organism of a different species for the benefit of both.
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