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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Close-up of aphids and ants at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis.This is a Formica moki, a native ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The School of Ants

December 9, 2011
You like ants, right? Of course you do. But probably not as much as Andrea Lucky, the "Queen of Ants." (Or as much as Phil Ward, her major professor at UC Davis or Alex Wild, the Illinois-based biologist and insect photographer who also studied with Ward.
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Italian honey bee on Senecio from the Asteraceae or daisy family. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Just Chillin'

December 8, 2011
The temperature on the UC Davis campus stood solidly at 56 degrees this afternoon. The less-than-ideal weather didn't seem to deter several Italian honey bees from foraging in a flower bed behind the Laboratory Sciences Building on the central campus.
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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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