Bug Squad

It's an amazing migratory feat. "One generation of monarch butterflies flutters some 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico," writes LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her piece, "Life's Little Mysteries" posted Nov. 4 on the LiveScience website.

If youre into bugs, the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus has plenty of them. Butterflies? Check. Dragonflies? Check. Native bees? Check.

Medical entomologist Thomas Scott (right), professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and a newly elected fellow of the Entomological Society of America, knows his foe well. His foe? The day-biting, tiger-striped mosquito, Aedes aegypti.

Ghouls just like to have fun at Halloween. So do entomologists. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology. located at 1124 Academic Surge, University of California, Davis, holds its annual Halloween Open House, guests are in for a real treat. A few tricks, too--in the form of tricky costumes.

What's a fly doing there? Just soaking up the sun. A fly that landed on one of the two colorfully painted beehive columns that grace the entrance to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the University of California, Davis, seemed like part of the scene.