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Predator and the prey: Assassin bug (left) corners a pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Gotcha!

October 7, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It wasn't much of a fight. The assassin bug scored a TKO. Here's what happened: an assassin bug ambushed a spotted cucumber beetle in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Faciility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. It was "good guy vs. bad guy.
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IPM specialist Frank Zalom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

It's Off to Berlin

October 6, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's off to Berlin for integrated pest management (IPM) specialist Frank Zalom, professor and former vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and soon-to-be-president of the 6000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA) Zalom is one of three Americans invited to speak at an internati...
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Bioassays for residual herbicides

October 6, 2011
By Brad Hanson
Residual or soil applied (ie. preemergent or PRE) herbicides can provide many benefits to weed managers.
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Honey bee, packing red pollen from a nearby rock purslane, nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Honey of an Event

October 5, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Did you know that honey bees visit more than two million flowers just to make a pound of honey? Two million visits for one pound? That's just one of the tidbits about honey that will be mentioned Friday, Oct. 21 at the all-day Honey! event at the UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Center.
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Honey bee foraging on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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In Between the Rains

October 4, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Mexican sunflowers. Gaillardia. The Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, is awash with autumn colors, despite the persistent rains.
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Cooperative Extension Ventura County: Article

October 2011 Clover Lines

October 3, 2011
In this issue: National 4-H Week, Online Record Book, Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat, and much more...
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Pollen-laden honey bee foraging on a pink African daisy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

In the Pink: A Backyard Safari

October 3, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You don't have to travel to Africa to go on safari. You can go on a "bug" safari in your own backyard. And you can stay as little or as long as you like without incurring such costs as air travel, hotel stays, and food expenses.
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This grasshopper, aka locust, is a banded-winged grasshopper, family Acrididae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Locusts Are Coming!

September 30, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The locusts are coming! The locusts are coming! No, not the one below, a banded-winged grasshopper (family Acrididae and subfamily Oedipodinae) that we spotted west of the UC Davis campus--and identified by Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
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Female Valley carpenter bee, caught in flight, dusted with gold pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Pardon My (Gold) Dust

September 29, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A gold rush of sorts. When the female Valley carpenter bees forage among the passion flowers (Passiflora), they turn from solid black to a mixture of gold and black. The pollen on their head, thorax and abdomen stands out like magical gold dust, as if sprinkled by the Good Fairy.
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