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FIRST PHOTO--When honey bees sting, it's usually a clean break. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen getting stung. (Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Sting

June 14, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
I've been asked how I did it. How did I manage to capture that rare image of a honey bee sting that won the feature photo award presented June 11 by the international Association for Communication Excellence (ACE)? The bee is tugging a long strand of abdominal tissue as it tries to pull away.
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Yellow-faced bumble bee nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Saving the Bumble Bees

June 13, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's sad to see and say, but like honey bees, the bumble bee population is declining, and that decline is alarming. Public awareness can help turn this around. That's why we're glad to see that the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, based in Portland, Ore.
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Beekeeper Elizabeth Frost in front of the pollinator patch she planted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Pollinator Paradise

June 12, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Picture a pollinator paradise right where nature intended it to be--near an apiary. Staff research associate/beekeeper Elizabeth Frost of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Annual Bluegrass Publication Revised

June 12, 2012
By Gale Perez
The Annual Bluegrass Pest Notes has been revised. If you're not familiar with Pest Notes, they are the University of Californias official guidelines for pest monitoring techniques, pesticides, and non-pesticide alternatives for managing pests in homes and landscapes.
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Newly emerged leafcutter bee outside her nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bed Check!

June 11, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
All winter long my bee condo housed 16 tenants...and one earwig. And quite comfortably, too, thank you. It all began last fall when the leafcutting bees laid their eggs, provisioned each nest with a nectar/pollen ball, and plugged it with leaves. Just about every morning, I did a bed check.
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Ivana Li (left) and Fran Keller wearing their "Know Your Sticks" t-shirts. Note the real walking stick insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Know Your Sticks

June 8, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Entomologists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, want you to know your sticks.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Graduate student named University Medalist at Fresno State

June 8, 2012
By Gale Perez
Marcelo Moretti, a UC Davis Horticulture and Agronomy Ph.D. student working with Weed Specialist Brad Hanson, was named as the 2012 University Graduate Medalist at Fresno State for his effort during his M.S. program at Fresno States Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Weeds are in the news.

June 8, 2012
I recently blogged about an National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast regarding the development and spread of glyphosate-resistant weeds. Well, weeds are back in the news; below is the link for a recently published piece in the The Scientist (Revenge of the Weeds. May 20, 2012). http://the-scientist.
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Ivana Li with a walking stick. (Photo by Fran Keller, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
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Outstanding Entomologist

June 7, 2012
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ivana Li's fascinations with insects began in early childhood. She delighted in the insects on her parents' rose buses--the aphids, the ladybugs, grasshoppers and the caterpillars.
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