Bug Blog
So, You Have This Bee Phobia...
Are you afraid of bees? Not apiculturist Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis and a professional bee wrangler. He worked behind the scenes in a new Animal Planet program,...
Apiculturist/bee wrangler Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Norm Gary, bee wrangler, loves his bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Butterflies Are Good Learners
Butterflies are good learners--just ask Martha Weiss. Weiss, associate professor of biology at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., will discuss "Lepidopteran Learning and Memory: Caterpillars,...
Biologist Martha Weiss of Georgetown University studies Lepidopteran learning and memory.
A Western tiger swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) lands on a Mexican sunflower, aka Tithonia, in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
For the Love of Bugs
"Where is the love for bugs?" science writer Rachel Nuwer asked in a recent article published in the New York Times.Well, there is that "ick" factor."If you have a grizzly bear or a beautiful bird,...
Madagascar hissing cockroach crawls up the arm of Mick Dunning, 6, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ralph Washington, who has a bachelor's degree in entomology from UC Davis, talks about the hissers to Mick, Emme and Molly Dunning (right). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emme Dunning, 8, of Davis, and a hisser. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Discovering Warrior Wasps
Lynn S. Kimsey is an entomologist, and has been one for most of her life.So begins the National Science Foundation's recent LiveScience feature on the UC Davis entomologist.It's an interesting piece....
Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic "warrior wasp" she discovered on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Stink Bug on a Bee
When self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis created the morphologically correct honey bee sculpture for the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis, she expected it to be a focal...
Consperse stink bug, Euschistus conspersus, crawls on the bee sculpture in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's not visible in this photo, but there's a stink bug is on the left antenna of the "Miss Bee Haven" sculpture created by Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)