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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)

SUSAN COBEY (far left), bee breeder-geneticist and manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, with a recent class on queen bee-rearing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What Makes a Beekeeper?

January 25, 2010

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

What makes a beekeeper? A research team from the Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., wants to know. Led by Wendy Schweigert, Ph.D.

CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal works in his lab in the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Blood Banquets

January 22, 2010

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Human blood--it drives mosquitoes wild. Today Marlene Cimmons of the National Science Foundation (NSF) spotlights chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology, University of California, Davis, on the LiveScience Web site.

HONEY BEE moves through salvia (sage). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Two Pressing Questions

January 21, 2010

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Its raining in northern California like the proverbial cats and dogs--and all the more reason to think of vacations.

ENTOMOLOGIST Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, readies for an interview with "Life After People." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If Bugs Ruled the World...

January 20, 2010

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Can you imagine a world without people? What it would look like? Check out the Life After People series airing on the History Channel.

MONARCH BUTTERFLY (Danaus plexippus), shown here in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa, is one of the butterflies that Art Shapiro has studied for the last 35 years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Fleeting Butterflies

January 19, 2010

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

It's good to see those fluttering butterflies back in the news again. But they are fleeting butterflies.