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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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Nature beckons

About Tropical Milkweed. Bug Squad blog ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...

Light beautifies the peppers

Male long-horned bee eyeing you

Remember the Covid days in 2020?

Celebrate

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Hug your cat! It’s National Hug Your Cat Day

The katydid

Seen on the internet

I shall protest when the cat is around

What’s up? A Gulf Fritillary

Just 2 bees sharing lavender

@thedanrather.bsky.social just watched the Dan Rather documentary. Courage.

Walk with us! Bodega Bay

Main Street, Vacaville

Let’s remember to be kind. Selling books at the expense of a newly diagnosed cancer victim is inappropriate

Squirrel!

Crab spider and the bee

Happy World Bee Day!

Bee all you can bee

Just bee-cause

UC Davis doctoral candidate Alexia “Lexie” Martin of the laboratory of Rachel Vannette, associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will display bee life stages at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sunday, May 18. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...

Arsenic in rice (a thread)

Busy

A feral cat neutered

Feral siblings posing

Child’s sidewalk art.

Feral cats getting in line for a picture (cat colony in Vacaville)

Beekeepers, take note. entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/caliorn...

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If you were a honey bee queen, you'd be laying eggs all day on Mother's Day (not to mention the other days!). You'd be the mother of all the bees in the hive. During the peak season, the queen can lay up to 1500 to 2000 eggs a day. (ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...)

This Palo Alto playground has rules

@anntelnaes.bsky.social congrats, Ann! So proud of you!

Who’s getting only 2 dolls for Christmas instead of 30 and only 5 pencils instead of 250? Asking for a friend. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Cat: “Leave me alone!” Dog: “Why?”

There’s a “b” in bee-gonia and a bee foraging on begonia.

What’s up? Bombus vosnesenskii and Apis mellifera

A very determined Anthophora urbana heading toward lavender

Don’t miss this amazing garden tour hosted by the Vacaville Museum Guild on Saturday, May 17. 6 homes to be featured

Nice hat

Honey bee on Echium wildpretii

Say “homeless” in one pic