Bug Squad

If you built it (a field of dreams), they will come. And if you bring flowers, that's all the bettter.

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It's not spring until you see honey bees, carpenter bees and butterflies on Tidy Tips. That would be Layia platyglossa, a wildflower native to southern California. Its common name is "Tidy Tips" or "Coastal Tidy Tips." It's a daisylike flower with yellow petals tipped in white, thus the name.

Theyre big, bold and beleaguered. And now, theyre big, bold and finely detailed. Western Hercules beetles became a part of the Bohart Museum of Entomologys educational and outreach program this month through a T-shirt design thats drawing raves.

The painted ladies are back. No, not the Victorian and Edwardian homes painted in three colors. No, not women wearing excessive amounts of makeup and pounding the sidewalk with their stiletto heels. These are BUTTERFLIES.