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.
Curator Jeff Smith of Bohart Museum of Entomology, #ucdavis, curates tiny moth with wingspan of 4mm
Paraleucoptera albella. Commonly known as a cottonwood leafminer moth. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
Paraleucoptera albella. Commonly known as a cottonwood leafminer moth. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Curator Jeff Smith of Bohart Museum of Entomology, #ucdavis, curates tiny moth with wingspan of 4mm
Paraleucoptera albella. Commonly known as a cottonwood leafminer moth. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
Paraleucoptera albella. Commonly known as a cottonwood leafminer moth. ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
I want to live in a world in which no one calls another person “stupid, ugly, fat and retarded.” And where love is love and hate is not tolerated. Is that too much to ask?
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I want to live in a world in which no one calls another person “stupid, ugly, fat and retarded.” And where love is love and hate is not tolerated. Is that too much to ask?
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Here’s the ride!
@Thanksgiving
@turkey
@who me?
Here’s the ride!
@Thanksgiving
@turkey
@who me?
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Here’s the ride!
@Thanksgiving
@turkey
@who me?
Here’s the ride!
@Thanksgiving
@turkey
@who me?
From a bee to a squash. From a bee to a pomegranate
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From a bee to a squash. From a bee to a pomegranate
One of the innovative and riveting games at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's recent open house on "Bees and Their Mimics" was "Bird Brain," created by UC Davis doctoral candidate Alexia "Lexie" Martin.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One of the innovative and riveting games at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's recent open house on "Bees and Their Mimics" was "Bird Brain," created by UC Davis doctoral candidate Alexia "Lexie" Martin.
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Breaking news
Breaking News: key discovery on how a plant-parasitic nematode, the Northern root-knot nematode, is able to infect such a wide range of organisms. #ucdavis nematologists, international team tinyurl.com/yc2b4nkh
Breaking News: key discovery on how a plant-parasitic nematode, the Northern root-knot nematode, is able to infect such a wide range of organisms. #ucdavis nematologists, international team tinyurl.com/yc2b4nkh
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Breaking news
Breaking News: key discovery on how a plant-parasitic nematode, the Northern root-knot nematode, is able to infect such a wide range of organisms. #ucdavis nematologists, international team tinyurl.com/yc2b4nkh
Breaking News: key discovery on how a plant-parasitic nematode, the Northern root-knot nematode, is able to infect such a wide range of organisms. #ucdavis nematologists, international team tinyurl.com/yc2b4nkh
Marilia Gaiarsa, UC Merced to present a #ucdavis seminar, “From Foraging to Fiitness: How Individual Behavior Shapes Plant-Pollinator Interactions," at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19 in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus. Zoom link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Marilia Gaiarsa, UC Merced to present a #ucdavis seminar, “From Foraging to Fiitness: How Individual Behavior Shapes Plant-Pollinator Interactions," at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19 in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus. Zoom link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672
#ucdavis doctoral
candidates Lexie Martin and Abigail Lehner to lead Bohart Museum
of Entomology open house on “Bees and their Mimics
on Nov. 15, 1 to 4. Free and family friendly!
ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
candidates Lexie Martin and Abigail Lehner to lead Bohart Museum
of Entomology open house on “Bees and their Mimics
on Nov. 15, 1 to 4. Free and family friendly!
ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#ucdavis doctoral
candidates Lexie Martin and Abigail Lehner to lead Bohart Museum
of Entomology open house on “Bees and their Mimics
on Nov. 15, 1 to 4. Free and family friendly!
ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
candidates Lexie Martin and Abigail Lehner to lead Bohart Museum
of Entomology open house on “Bees and their Mimics
on Nov. 15, 1 to 4. Free and family friendly!
ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
Tachinid fly laid eggs in my monarch chrysalis.
Sneaky little fly
Sneaky little fly
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tachinid fly laid eggs in my monarch chrysalis.
Sneaky little fly
Sneaky little fly
Remembering Francis Keatley, my paternal immigrant ancestor from Ireland, who served in the Revolutionary War. So did my maternal ancestors, the Laughlins.
Fly high..
Fly high..
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Remembering Francis Keatley, my paternal immigrant ancestor from Ireland, who served in the Revolutionary War. So did my maternal ancestors, the Laughlins.
Fly high..
Fly high..
UC Davis entomologist and invertebrate specialist Geoffrey Attardo will lead a free-and-family-friendly workshop, “Life Begins in Water: A Workshop on Restoring Healthy Wetland Communities,” on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Capay Open Space Regional Park, Yolo County.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
UC Davis entomologist and invertebrate specialist Geoffrey Attardo will lead a free-and-family-friendly workshop, “Life Begins in Water: A Workshop on Restoring Healthy Wetland Communities,” on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Capay Open Space Regional Park, Yolo County.
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
Monarch visits a Vacaville garden on Election Day. Nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. A joy to see
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November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Monarch visits a Vacaville garden on Election Day. Nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. A joy to see
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Cheers! Western tiger swallowtail
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Cheers! Western tiger swallowtail
At Vacaville Museum today (Nov. 1) Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
At Vacaville Museum today (Nov. 1) Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl
Vacaville Indivisible Official-sponsored protest today (Nov. 1) at Monte Vista Avenue and Nut Tree Road. ProBono Photo (KKG) was there. A few images/ More at www.probonophoto.org/2025/1Nov25V...
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Vacaville Indivisible Official-sponsored protest today (Nov. 1) at Monte Vista Avenue and Nut Tree Road. ProBono Photo (KKG) was there. A few images/ More at www.probonophoto.org/2025/1Nov25V...
Vacaville Indivisible Official-sponsored protest today (Nov. 1) at Monte Vista Avenue and Nut Tree Road. ProBono Photo (KKG) was there. A few images/ More at www.probonophoto.org/2025/1Nov25V...
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Vacaville Indivisible Official-sponsored protest today (Nov. 1) at Monte Vista Avenue and Nut Tree Road. ProBono Photo (KKG) was there. A few images/ More at www.probonophoto.org/2025/1Nov25V...
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
