Bug Squad

Mellow yellow! The butterflies are back! We spotted a bright yellow butterfly nectaring a bush germander on Feb. 7 in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis.

It's one of the most beautiful agricultural scenes you'll ever see--bee trucks heading to California almond orchards to pollinate one of the state's most important crops.

Science literary is in trouble. A recent survey commissioned by the California Academy of Science showed that nearly half of the nation's adults believe that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time.

Bring on the asters. When you visit the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

Roger Vargas is in the thick of fruit-fly research and he probably wishes those insects would thin out. He's a research entomologist at the USDA-ARS Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii. For those who don't deal with acronyms, that's the Agricultural Research Service of the U.