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.

ME: "Saudi Arabians were behind 9/11" THEM: "We must do something!" ME: "Saudi Arabian royalty just had a journalist working in America murdered and hacked to pieces with a bone saw." THEM: "We must do something!" ME: "What are you going to do?" THEM: "Give them nukes?"

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president got into this without a strategic goal…At first this was about regime change, then it became about nuclear weapons, then about ballistic missiles, then about the navy. They're flailing."

When Trump was first elected, I told a Trumper “Not my president.” Trumper: “But you live in the United States don’t you? He is your president.” Me: “Your president. Not mine.” Fast forward to today: Ditto.

The only monarch we need is a butterfly! Vacaville Indivisible is sponsoring a “Save Our Democracy” rally from 10 am to 11:30 am Saturday, July 11 in front of Vacaville City Hall. Silence is not an option! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Greetings from my Ceanothus silk moth caterpillar, 5th instar, that I am rearing on manzanita leaves. Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night from 7 to 11 on Saturday, July 18. Free and family friendly

Ceanothus silk moth caterpillar