When honey bees make the transition from egg to larva to pupa to adult, it's magical. Today we watched bees chew through their cell cappings, flex their antennae, crawl out, and immediately look around for work to do.
If you head over to the California State Capitol tomorrow (Tuesday, March 23) don't be too surprised if there's a John Deere tractor on the west steps. March 23 is Ag Day when the state's urban and rural folks come out in force to celebrate the state's $34.8 billion ag industry.
If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have not more than four years to live." That comment, widely attributed to physicist Albert Einstein, is all over the web.
You may have heard about the "Bug Boot Camp" that ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at the UC Davis Department of Entomology, conducts for graduate and undergraduate students every other summer.
Deep in the bowels of Briggs Hall on the UC Davis campus, entomology graduate student Kelly Hamby works on a pest that is giving growers fits: spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii).
