Kathy Keatley Garvey
Freelance Writer, Photographer and Blogger at Freelance
Award-winning journalist/former newspaper editor.UC Davis communications specialist,Bug Squad blogger,insect photographer.Hates injustice.Views my own.
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1 week ago |
ucanr.edu | Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bug Squad BlogBy Kathy Keatley GarveyThere she was, a mining bee (genus Andrena) sunning herself on a Passiflora (passionflower vine). She did not notice me. Such a tiny bee, about the size of a grain of rice. It's a solitary ground-nesting bee known as "an early spring bee" and it lives only a few weeks. We've seen the mining bees on our cherry laurels in Vacaville, and on meadowfoam at the Jepson Prairie Preserve, Dixon. When they emerge, they quickly find a mate.
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1 week ago |
ucanr.edu | Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bug Squad BlogBy Kathy Keatley GarveyFlameskimmers bring great joy. Today we saw the first dragonfly of the season in our Vacaville garden. The flameskimmer perched on a stick and me allowed me to take few images. Thanks, flameskimmer!It was just a couple of weeks ago that I reviewed a book for Argia, the Dragonfly Society of the America's quarterly news journal. The book, Dragonflies (Anisoptera) of California. By Kathy Biggs and Sandra von Arb. 2024. BEAR Fdn, Petaluma, California, 200 pp.
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1 week ago |
ucanr.edu | Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bug Squad BlogBy Kathy Keatley GarveySwing that net! Catch that butterfly!The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis encouraged people of all ages to show their skills at netting a butterfly replica on the Briggs Hall lawn last Saturday during the 111th annual campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day.
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1 week ago |
ucanr.edu | Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bug Squad BlogBy Kathy Keatley GarveyThe long-awaited UC Davis Picnic Day activities at Briggs Hall will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, April 12 and continue until 5 p.m.It promises to be a fun-filled and educational event where roaches races, maggots crawl and the crowd cheers. And everyone learns more about entomology, also known as insect science. If a person really wants to be a bee or a cockroach, there's a cardboard cutout for that.
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2 weeks ago |
davisenterprise.com | Kathy Keatley Garvey
What's buzzing, racing and crawling at Briggs Hall — the home of the UC Davis department of entomology and nematology — during the 111th annual campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 12? Bees, cockroaches and maggots, to be specific!All of the department's entomological exhibits will be at Briggs Hall. This includes a pop-up tent from the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (The Bohart Museum headquarters in the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, will be closed Picnic Day). Bees?
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Honored and humbled to have this image showcased at the recent annual meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America. This is a teddy bear bee, male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, and a delight to see. #BugSquad https://t.co/KN1BpSqF8G https://t.co/S9zLmt3Xqe
There she was, a mining bee (genus Andrena) on a Passiflora (passionflower vine). Such a tiny bee, about the size of a grain of rice. It's a solitary ground-nesting bee known as "an early spring bee" and it lives only a few weeks. #BugSquad https://t.co/sbZP74UiiM
#Flameskimmer dragonflies bring great joy! You may never see all the dragonflies in California, but if you want to try, you can identify them, thanks to newly published guidebook, "Dragonflies (Anisoptera) of California" #BugSquad https://t.co/ZJSRYSVG93