Bug Blog
Marching for Science on April 22
A honey bee, dusted with blue pollen, forages on a bird's eye, Gilia tricolor. We tower above her for a bird's eye view. It is April 19, 2010 in a field near the central UC Davis campus. All is...
A honey bee, dusted with blue pollen, forages on a bird's eye, Gilia tricolor. This photo was taken in April 2010, when all was not right in the bee world. It still isn't. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insects "March for Science" in this art work by ESA member Carly M. Tribull.
A Dazzling Display of Red Pollen
Some folks worry about "getting the red out." How about "getting the red in?" Have you ever seen a honey bee packing white, pink, blue, lavender, yellow, orange or red pollen? Have you ever seen...
A honey bee packing red pollen stops to sip from nectar from Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee adjusting her load of red pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
On a Winning Streak!
You're on a winning streak when you spot a gray hairstreak. No, not the streak in Grandpa's hair--the streak on Grandma's flowers. It's the gray hairstreak butterfly, Strymon mellinus, also known...
Gray hairstreak, Strymon mellinus, nectaring on lavender in Vacaville, Calif. in April. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hi, there! A gray hairsteak checks out the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is a European green hairstreak (Callophrys rubi). Charles J. Sharp of Sharp Photography, UK, captured this image in Aston Upthorpe, Oxfordshire. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
The Lady Beetle: An Eating Machine
The lady beetle, aka ladybug, is a veritable eating machine. Have you ever watched a lady beetle gobble up those pesky aphids? Aphids may look fragile, harmless and sluggish, but wow, can those tiny...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, devouring an aphid, while other aphids appear to be "aphids in waiting." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The 'Best of the Best' Entomology Departments
Bugs rule! Congratulations to the world's top 10 entomology departments, as listed today (April 3) in the long-awaited Times Higher Education's Center for World University...
Visitors handling a black velvet walking stick with red wings at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)