Bug Blog
Bug Lovers, Unite!
If you like bugs and live in Northern California, you're in luck. The newly formed California Bug Club has scheduled its first meeting for 6 p.m., Satuday, Jan. 12 in the Elk Grove Library's meeting...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, talks about a rose-haired tarantula at a Bohart open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Exciting Insect Tales and Art
Deep in the forest, in a tree so old its bark is blackened and its roots are larger around than a man, a beetle flaps its wings. This beetle belongs to a large and varied order: their...
Whitney Krupp with her beetle art work. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of Whitney Krupp's art work: beetles boring into pictographs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This art work by Nhu Mai shows a doomed hornet in a honey bee hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Going for the Roses
Just call it going for the roses. Or a hot spot. In between the showers and the sunshine, the bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of...
ONE: A sole honey bee visits a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
TWO: Two bees visit a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
THREE: Three bees visit a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
FOUR: Four bees visit a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'A' Is for Almonds; 'B' is for Bees
It's the Big 4-0 for the Almond Board of California's annual almond industry conference this week. Some 1000 convention-goers are gathering in the Sacramento Convention Center. The 40th annual...
Sign at the entrance to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis depicts honey bees, a skep, DNA and almond blossoms. It is the work of Donna Billick of Davis (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fog shrouds the bee sculpture in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. It is the work of Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee working an almond blossom. She's packing her pollen load. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Touch of Humor
When chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, was elected to the prestigious Brazilian Academy of Sciences, his lab members donned matching...
The Walter Leal lab wearing matching t-shirts. See caption at end of the blog. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Walter Leal (back to camera) talking to his lab members. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)