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Kathy Keatley Garvey

@bugsrule.bsky.social

Writes daily Bug Squad blog on UC ANR website at https://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/. Works at UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. Journalist, longtime newspaper editor, insect photographer. A kitten named “Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout” owns me.

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When people steal your copyrighted image of a bee sting to use commercially or as clickbait. my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogco...

03.08.2025 14:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Male Valley carpenter bee, aka the teddy bear bee, is so cool. My image graces the cover of Vacaville Magazine

03.08.2025 03:11 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Lady beetle at Bodega Bay

03.08.2025 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Two of a kind. Bodega Bay

02.08.2025 22:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s for breakfast? A bee

02.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“These are a few of my favorite things”

31.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WhT’s up? What’s down

31.07.2025 02:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Honey bee cleaning her tongue

31.07.2025 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthophora urbana

31.07.2025 02:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s coming

30.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whistleblowers did not win

30.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We should all be in the streets protesting

29.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A bee. A zinnia.

29.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monarch butterfly egg, about the size of a pin head

29.07.2025 02:55 — 👍 53    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Shadows

28.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Western tiger swallowtail—so stunning

27.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newly Created Vacaville Mural Includes State Insect, State Flower | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Image

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25.07.2025 14:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I stand with Rosie, Colbert, South Park, PBS, NPR, National Parks, the National Weather Service, Science, USAID, the Department of Education, and Sesame Street. Sculpture of pear picker in Vacaville by Lisa Reinertson

24.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi there. Do you, a friend, colleague, or family dog, want to nail #OSINT basics: geolocation, flight tracking, hidden info, disinfo etc?

I've published 40 videos on YouTube.

Upside: they're free. Downside: my Aussie twang and choice of intro tunes. www.youtube.com/@Bendobrown/...

18.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 60    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 0

Burp

23.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sorry I ate your butterfly

23.07.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Cabbage white butterfly

Cabbage white butterfly

Tuxedo cat

Tuxedo cat

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23.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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An all-purpose ball hoop: basketball, soccer, baseball, football. Someone’s “on the ball”

23.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hint: if you’re trying to nail a squash bee, you might want to change position

22.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Sunday! Western tiger swallowtail

20.07.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s up?

20.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How beautiful is the green metallic sweat bee, #Agapostemon texanus. This one is a male.

19.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 33    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Bombus californicus on Tithonia. Peek-a-bee (cell phone)

19.07.2025 05:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Raising the Alarm About Science Budget Cuts | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Watch this!

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17.07.2025 03:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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