- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Noted pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a 2015-2020 Chancellor's Fellow, recently discussed native bees on the international podcast, Science Friday, with host and executive producer Ira Flatow.
The podcast, "The Buzz on Native Bees in Your Neighborhood," is online.
"When I say 'bees,' you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves, right?" Flatow began. "But there's a lot more to bees than that. Because around the world, there...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a whopping 100-fold increase.
California's 2021 western monarch Thanksgiving count, directed by the Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation, recorded 250,000 overwintering monarchs, as compared to a mere 2000 in 2020.
Executive producer and host Ira Flatow of Science Friday set out to "unpack the news" for his listeners. On Feb. 4, he interviewed community ecologist Louie Yang, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and a faculty member of the Center for Population Biology. (Listen to the interview, 'How Long Will...