Bug Squad

It's Friday Fly Day, and time to post an image of a fly that masquerades as a bee. That would be "the bee fly," a fly so named because it resembles a bee Order: Diptera. Family: Bombyliidae. In its adult stage, it's a pollinator that feeds on nectar and pollen. In its larval stage, it's parasitoid.

Have you ever been asked: "Do you BELIEVE in climate change?' The more pertinent question, scientists say, is "Do you UNDERSTAND climate change?

It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October is THEIR month.

If you missed the eagerly anticipated UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada, an associate professor at Texas A&M and an international leader in honey bee research, not to worry. Her Oct. 7th seminar was recorded.

What an incredible story! It all began with insects and an entomology graduate student's curiosity of how caterpillars turn into butterflies.