Bug Squad

It's good to see so many publications focusing on the pollinator crisis--because that's exactly what it is, a crisis. Writing for the Nature journal, Sharon Levy recently examined pollination studies that focus on the importance of pollinators and the plants they frequent.

Thanksgiving will come early to the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis. An open house, appropriately themed "Thankful for Bugs," is set from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive. And it's free. Visitors can view insect specimens from all over the world.

The Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, and its adjacent honey bee garden, the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, received an international shot of publicity when My Extreme Animal Phobia aired last Friday on the Animal Planet Channel.

Let it bee. But the California State Beekeepers Association (CSBA) certainly won't. When the beekeepers and their affiliates gather today (Monday, Nov. 14) through Thursday, Nov.

Someone scrawled "Bugs Rule" on a Briggs Hall blackboard during a recent UC Davis Picnic celebration. A delightful drawing of a bug accompanied the proclamation. Bugs do rule, and they'll rule at the 59th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), to take place Nov.