Bug Blog
What's Stirring on Christmas Eve
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...--Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) In our house, nothing is stirring, thanks be to...
Harlequin bug wandering around on passion flower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf fritillary caterpillar--soon to become a chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Another gulf fritillary caterpillar--soon to become a chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf fritillary chrysalis attached to wire behind passion flower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology
"Americans spend millions of dollars on sprays and pest control devices or services to kill insects. Yet much of this is unnecessary. Education about insects, spiders and their relatives is critical...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, in her habitat. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Butterflies collected from Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bee Sting Felt Around the World
Chris saw it first. This morning Chris Mussen of Davis contacted his father, Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, and told him that the photo of him being...
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen being stung by a bee in an unexpected encounter at the Harry H. Laidalw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Our Man (Entomologist) in Washington
It's going to be a busy year for UC Davis integrated pest management specialist/professor Frank Zalom. Make that several years. Zalom, who just completed a year as the vice president-elect of the...
ESA vice president Frank Zalom (far right) of UC Davis with ESA president Robert Wiedenmann (far left) of the University of Arkansas, and Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). (Photo courtesy of ESA)
Unwrapped!
For more than a week, tarps protected the art from the elements. The artists would work on the installation daily, then stop and cover the art, resuming only when weather permitted. The...
Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist/artist Diane Ullman uncovers a pillar. In the foreground, a bee sculpture created by colleague Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Today was a cold, blustery day but the pillars gleamed in the sunlight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This work, showing the developmental stages of a worker honey bee, is by artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)