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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Queen bee of the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Queen on Mother's Day

May 9th, 2025
 If you were a honey bee queen, you'd be laying eggs all day on Mother's Day (not to mention the other days!).You'd be the mother of all the bees in the hive.During the peak season, the queen can lay up to 1500 to 2000 eggs a day. That can amount to about 50,000 to 80,000 workers (sterile females) and…
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Anise swallowtail caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis Groundbreaking Research Began with Caterpillars

May 8th, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Groundbreaking research that began with how caterpillars stay young drew acclamation and applause when the UC Davis School of Medicine (SOM) hosted its 2025 Convergence Research Celebration, held in the UC Davis Conference Center.The joint TEDx presentation, “Staying Young, Feeling Younger, and Slowing…
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A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenski, foraging on Echium at Bodega Bay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bumble Bees of Bodega Bay

May 7th, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Where are all the bumble bees?This spring they seem quite scarce in Solano and Yolo County gardens, but a trip to Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, reveals different results.They're all over the Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans), a species in the family Boraginaceae, and genus Echium, native to the island…
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Thriving tomato plants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Knot' What You Want in Your Tomato Plants

May 6th, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 If you grow tomatoes, you may have encountered root-knot nematodes."Knot" what you want.USDA-ARS research plant pathologist William Rutter will speak on "Investigating the Mechanisms that Underlie Host Plant Resistance Against Root-Knot Nematodes" at a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of…
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Lady beetle and her eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bohart Museum: Bring on the Bugs!

May 5th, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Bring on the bugs!The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host an open house, themed "Insects: Life Stages," on Sunday afternoon, May 18. The event, free and family friendly, takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus."It's all about…
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