Kathy Keatley Garvey @bugsrule

Waiting for the master

12.02.2026 06:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monarch nectaring on Tithonia

Blue sky, monarch, Tithonia. What could be better?

09.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bee in flight

Mark your calendars, Feb. 21. 15th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Free and family friendly

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09.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dandelion

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

07.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bug Squad blog about who won the Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest

Herpetologist Kat Calderala and lepidopterist Art Shapiro, co-winners of the Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, celebrate the victory. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Who won the UC Davis Beer-for-Butterfly Contest?

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“The press is the enemy of the people.”

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Honey bee pollinating almonds

European wool carder bee

Bee-hold: A honey bee. European wool carder bee

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Geoffrey Attardo

Rachel Vannette

Spotted-Wing Drosophila Team

Congrats to our PBESA award winners: Geoffrey Attardo, Rachel Vannette and the Spotted Wing-Drosophila Resistancd Team!
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Release of Epstein Files was due Dec. 19. Don’t “bee” distracted

29.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Synopsis: Slovenian sex worker on an Einstein visa in the Epstein Files who speaks 5 languages and is married to a felon with 34 convictions who claims he has stopped 8 wars and says the 1600 insurrections are patriots.

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Honey bee on blossom

Bee-hold: a honey bee on a Japanese apricot blossom

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Tuxedo cat

Any time is a good time to post a cat pic. This is Miss Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, all dressed up and looking at birds in a tree. Very politely. (No birds harmed in making of this photo) Does your cat do this? Cat tax!

28.01.2026 05:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ProBonoPhoto Photos for Social and Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area

@maddow.bsky.social
Vacaville, Calif. protest on Jan. 24
Some 213 men, women and children
in protest at Vacaville City Hall.
Images and videos are here
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Western tiger swallowtail and Mexican sunflower

Blue sky.
Western tiger swallowtail.
Mexican sunflower.
Joy.

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Medium eyes!

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True

25.01.2026 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bombus vosnesenskii on lupine

25.01.2026 05:23 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honey bee pollinating orange blossoms

The world around us; Honey bee pollinating orange blossoms.

23.01.2026 14:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bombus melanopygus on rosemary in Vacaville in January!

20.01.2026 04:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sycophants.

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UC Davis Distinguished Professor EmeritusRick Karban’s incredible 40-year research on the wooly bear caterpillar ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...

16.01.2026 04:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amanda Hodson

Amanda Hodson, assistant professor of soil ecology and pest management, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematolgy, will discuss “Musings on the Subterranean Invertebrate Metropolis" at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14 in 122 Briggs Hall. Also on Zoom. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...

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