Bug Squad

Are you ready to meet awesome "Annie" at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6? You won't want to cuddle her, though. Annie is a pet scorpion belonging to Emma Jochim, a second-year doctoral student n the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

If you're a wanna-be entomologist or arachnologist, or just curious about insects and arachnids, you'll love the live animals and specimens that will showcased in the Bohart Museum of Entomology booth at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.

When friends own almond acreage, and invite you to see the bees and the blossoms on a brilliant day in mid-February, you go. Of course, you go. Almond pollination season is a delight to see and record. Almonds rank No.

There may or may not be a silver lining for conservationists trying to save the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly, but postdoctoral research scholar Erica Henry, of Washington State University (WSU), is among those trying to do so.

Congrats to Professors Diane Ullman and Joanna Chiu of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.