Sept. 21, 2012
The 292-page book, described by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) as “the most comprehensive, practical field guide available for setting up an IPM program in any type of crop or landscape,” includes monitoring and management technology updates, new methods for protecting the environment, new information on invasive pests and pesticide resistance.
It contains more than 160 color photos and 100 illustrations.
The manual is the official study guide for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Pest Control Adviser exam. The $35 manual can be ordered from the UC ANR catalog or by telephoning (800) 994-8849 or (510) 642-2431.
Flint, with UC IPM since 1980, is the associate director for urban and community IPM. She is responsible for developing and supporting teams engaged in planning and implementing IPM programs for public agency, residential, landscape, and structural audiences.
The cover of the manual shows Flint's graduate student, Stacy Hishinuma.
Publication Number: 3418
Author: Mary Louise Flint
Inventory Type: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1-60107-785-1
Copyright Date: 2012
Length: 292 pp.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
DAVIS--There might not be “order in the court,” but there are definitely orders outside the UC Davis Department of Entomology’s administrative office on the third floor of Briggs Hall.
Thanks to Ivana Li, a fifth-year entomology major and president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, the hallway now features eight newly created display cases showcasing specimens, photos and text on various orders of insects as well as the phylum Arthopdea, the largest animal phylum.
Li finished the project, funded by a Bohart Museum of Entomology grant, within a four-week period. Assisting her from the Bohart were Lynn Kimsey, museum director and professor of entomology; senior museum scientist Steve Heydon; and Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator. Yang wrote the grant.
“Tabatha provided me with the opportunity to do this project,” Li said.
Visitors can see everything from dragonflies, butterflies and honey bees to beetles, flies, ants and other insects. Spiders, although not an insect, are represented in Arthopdea.
The displays:
- Order Lepitopdera, butterflies and moths
- Order Coleoptera, beetles
- Order Hemiptera, true bugs
- Order Hymenoptera, bees, ants and wasps
- Order Diptera, flies, mosquitoes, knats and midges
- Orthopteroid orders, including Mantodea (mantids), Phasmatodea (stick insects) and Blattodea (cockroaches)
- Aquatic insects, including Odonata (dragonflies), Ephemeoptera (mayflies), Plecoptera (stoneflies), Neuroptera (lacewings and antlions), and Trichoptera (caddisflies)
- Phylum Arthopodea, the largest animal phylum, which includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.
For the displays, Li used specimens from the Bohart Museum of Entomology; bark beetles and bark from USDA Forest Service chemical ecologist Steve Seybold, a UC Davis Department of Entomology affiliate; and insect photos from Andrew Richards of the Bohart Museum and Kathy Keatley Garvey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology. The photos include one of a honey bee stinging Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen. The photo, taken at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, won first place in an international photo contest and later was named one of the "Most Amazing Photos of 2012" by Huffington Post.
Li, who is the recipient of the Department of Entomology’s 2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Award, works at the Bohart Museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Lane.
Her future plans include enrolling in graduate school.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
Sept. 21, 2012
Schebb received the award, the 2012 Sciex LC /MS Award, for his “extraordinary work in the field of LC/MS” on Sept. 18 during the German society’s workshop in Wuppertal, Germany. The award includes a prize of 3000 Euros about $4,500 from AB Sciex, a major producer of MS systems for a host of applications, including drug discovery, clinical research, food production, and toxicology.
Schebb conducted the research from 2009 to 2011 in the UC Davis Laboratory of Pesticide Biotechnology, directed by Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology and principal investigator of the Superfund Research Program grant.
Schebb, who has a doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Munster, Germany, is now principal investigator and head of a lab at the Institute of Food Toxicology and Chemical Analysis at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Hannover, Germany (link to the website: schebb-web.de).
The research, “Investigation of Human Exposure to Triclocarban after Showering and Preliminary Evaluation of its Biological Effects,” was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology and was co-authored by Hammock and four other scientists in the Hammock lab: Bora Inceoglu, K. C. Ahn, Christophe Morisseau and Shirley Gee.
The awarded study measured the human exposure with TCC by the use of personal care products. “It was a surprise that a single shower led to such high urinary concentration of TCC metabolites” Schebb said. Moreover, the study revealed that TCC strongly inhibits the enzyme soluble epoxide hydroxylase (sEH), suggesting that exposure could impact human health. The Hammock lab has published a series of studies on the efficacy of sEH suppression in the regulation of blood pressure, inflammation, and pain. “ Though sEH inhibition has largely beneficial effects on mammalian physiology, these is not an action the consumer expect from the use of a personal care product”. Schebb commented on these results.
Since the publication of the 2011 study, Schebb has been involved in five follow-up studies on TCC, showing for example that TCC also can form reactive metabolites which covalently bind to cellular macromolecules.
Schebb’s award-winning study was one of some 15 toxicological and laboratory methods papers he has co-authored on work with the Hammock group.
(Editor’s Note: Eddy Ball of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, contributed to this article.)
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
As his Eagle Scout project, 17-year-old Derek Tully of Davis planned, organized and built a state-of-the-art fence around the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre pollinator garden at the University of California, Davis.
The public garden, adjacent to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus, now boasts a post-and-rail fence to “bee-hold.”
The four-foot high fence, meshed with wire that extends six inches underground, is “meticulous,” “fabulous” and “beautiful,” agree UC Davis Department of Entomology officials, haven volunteers, and the garden's visitors.
Derek Tully negotiated with area businesses to obtain discounted prices. The total cost of materials: $6300. The UC Davis Department of Entomology picked up the tab through a special account coordinated by entomology professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the haven's faculty liaison.
“This project saved our department an estimated $24,000 to $30,000,” Kimsey said. The garden, publicly dedicated Sept. 11, 2010, was installed during her term as interim chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology. It is open from dawn to dusk at no charge.
“Derek did a fabulous job organizing the project and the volunteers,” Kimsey said. She and her husband, UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey, himself an Eagle Scout, supported the fence project from its inception. The Kimseys are longtime friends of the Tully family.
“The fence is meticulous, a professional job,” said Lynn Kimsey. “It's beautiful.”
The sturdy fence, complete with three gates, is meant to define the space, beautify the garden, allow easy entrance to visitors, and restrict the movement of jackrabbits, ground squirrels and pocket gophers. The underground wiring is designed to inhibit burrowing animals that feast on the plants in the garden.
“Everyone likes the fence but the rodents,” quipped Larry Tully. He and his wife, Leslie Woodhouse, a research support scientist at the USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center on the UC Davis campus, serve as assistant scoutmasters of Troop 111. The troop is led by scoutmaster Mark Shafer.
The Eagle Scout project involved more than 488 volunteer hours, or to be exact, 488 hours and 15 minutes. Among the volunteers laboring on the fence, in addition to the adult volunteers, were 18 registered members of the Boy Scouts of America; forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey; Derek's brother, Shane, 21, also an Eagle Scout; and Derek's girlfriend, violinist Emily Talbot, 17.
“I think it's a good project,” Derek Tully humbly acknowledged. “I think it's one of the most solid Eagle Scout projects I've seen.”
“We're so grateful to Derek and his team for the contribution they have made to the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven,” said Melissa “Missy” Gable, program manager of the California Center for Urban Horticulture at UC Davis and involved in the garden since its very beginning. “The fence really gives the garden a sense of place and welcomes community members in to stroll the paths and enjoy the plants. Thanks to Derek, the outside of the garden now matches the beauty of the inside.”
In organizing the project and obtaining volunteers, Tully received assistance from greenhouse superintendent Garry Pearson, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, who augured the holes for the fence posts.
Tully said the project required 91 fence posts, 211 2x4s, 46 2x6 railings (each 20 feet long), four yards of gravel, 18 bags of concrete, and 12 rolls of wiring at 100 feet each.
Tully, who joined Tiger Cubs at age 5, worked his way up through the ranks to become a candidate for Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scout program. To be eligible for the honor, candidates are required to earn a minimum of 21 merit badges; demonstrate scout spirit, service and leadership; organize a community project not related to scouting; and provide a detailed report of the project. Next step: Tully will appear before the Eagle Scout Board of Review. He is expected to receive his Eagle Scout rank in about a month.
In the meantime, Tully continues his studies at DaVinci Charter Academy and competes on the Davis High School water polo and swim teams, activities “way different” from working on the fence in triple-digit temperatures.
His brother Shane, a business major at Chico State University, earned his Eagle Scout rank in 2008. He built a 20-person observation deck at the Korematsu Elementary School garden, Mace Ranch, Davis.
Future plans? No, Derek Tully does not have his sights set on becoming a professional fence builder.
“I want to become a marine biologist,” he said.
DAVIS--The Bohart Museum of Entomology will celebrate honey bees, native bees in California, and bees found worldwide at two concurrent open houses set from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. The theme is “Flower Lovers: The Bees.”
One open house will be at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Lane, formerly California Avenue (off La Rue Road) and the other at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, off Hutchison Drive/Hopkins Road, west of the central campus.
The Bohart Museum, part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, is arranging both events and “we’re hoping people will travel from one to the other and participate in both,” said Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum’s education and outreach coordinator.
Tables at the Bohart Museum will feature craft activities and a display of bees from all over the world. Among those participating will be Yang; senior museum scientist Steve Heydon; and graduate student Matan Shelomi. The museum, directed by Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, houses more than seven million insect specimens, and is also home to a live “petting zoo,” including Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and rose-haired tarantula.
At the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven the agenda will include a recognition ceremony for Derek Tully, 17, of Davis at 1:30 p.m. As his Eagle Scout project, he planned, organized and supervised the building of the haven fence, saving the Department of Entomology at least $24,000, according to Kimsey. He began the project April 2 and completed it Sept. 7.
The haven open house will include a display table on native bees, staffed by Neal Williams, assistant professor of entomology and graduate student Katharina Ullmann; honey bees, headed by staff research associate Billy Synk; and a crafts table, staffed by the UC Davis Entomology Club. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, a noted honey bee expert, will field questions.
Christine Casey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology will guide a tour of the haven from 2 to 2:30 p.m.
The Bohart Museum of Entomology, founded in 1946 and named for noted entomologist Richard M. Bohart, is dedicated to teaching, research and service. It is open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. It is closed to the public on Fridays. Admission is free. Weekend open houses are scheduled once a month.
More information is available on the Bohart Museum website at http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/or by contacting Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator at tabyang@ucdavis.edu or (530) 752-0493.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
