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)
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Waving goodbye in Burundi. (Photo by Jenny Carlson Donnelly)

Lost Science, A Lost Job, A Loss to Global Public Health

December 18, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 The "Lost Science" column of the New York Times recently focused on Jenny Carlson Donnelly, a UC Davis doctoral alumna who lost her job earlier this year as a Malaria Outbreak Emergency Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) due to Trump administration cuts.USAID,…
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A frame of honeycomb. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Honey of a Gift

December 17, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Can't think of a gift to buy for the beekeepers, food enthusiasts, naturalists, environmental educators, and honey and mead lovers in your life? It gets a little sticky, doesn't it? Sometimes really sticky.To the rescue...a couple of Santa's helpers...The California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP…
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Jeff Smith, curator of Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology

A Tiny and Beautiful Moth from Texas

December 16, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Not everything is big in Texas.If you're used to seeing the huge Texas longhorns, with horns spanning eight feet in length from tip to tip, then this is quite the comparison.Entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, just…
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Blue morpho butterflies at Bohart Museum of Entomology.

And the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day Design Contest Winners Are...

December 15, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 These designs showcasing the 15th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day will "draw you in."The BioDiv Committee recently sponsored a design contest and selected the two winners. They are....drum roll...Haylie Wilcox, a first-year master's degree student in the lab of Professor Neal Williams, a…
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Honeycomb (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Sweet Collaboration: Honey and Mead

December 12, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 A sweet collaboration!The California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP), based at UC Davis, and The HIVE Tasting Room and Kitchen in Woodland, have joined forces--sweet forces--to present two courses at The Hive:  the first is The Science of Honey Tasting  from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., on…
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