Bug Squad

If you cotton to honey, you'll want to head over to Briggs Hall tomorrow (Saturday, April 17) during the 96th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. You can sample cotton honey, as well as five other flavors, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

When some folks think of a honey bee, they immediately think of stings. Not pollination, not honey, not colony collapse disorder, but stings. To beekeepers, stings are a minor irritation, or perhaps not an irritation at all. It's just something that happens in an occupation.

Excellent work! We're glad to see that three noted entomologists at the University of California, Davis, received distinguished awards in their fields at the 94th annual meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) on April 13 in Boise, Idaho.

Charles W.Woodworth would have been proud. When the C. W.

Redmaids aren't red. They're purple-petaled with white centers and yellow stamens. The California native wildflower (Calandrinia ciliatais) from the purslane family (Portulacaceae) blooms from February through May. Farmers who grow baby spinach and other crops consider it a weed. Honey bees don't.