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Lawns are lovely to look at, but you really need one? Reading an article in Reader's Digest, the March-April 2023 issue, I found myself wondering about all the transplants from the Mid-West who find that the perfect lawn in California is hard to come by.

What's the buzz? It's the Ceanothus Caf smorgasbord! Bees around my house were happy to see the Ceanothus Caf open this spring with quite an abundance of yummy blue lilac flowers. Ceanothus are colorful evergreen California native shrubs. They are drought hardy and can grow almost anywhere.

This is how it started in Southern California. Since the introduction, there are currently quarantine zones covering half of Orange County, north into the San Gabriel Valley and out into Riverside County! San Diego just proclaimed an Emergency Program as of April 2023.

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is widely used for biological research.

Assistant professor Katie Thompson-Peer of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine, will speak on "Cellular Mechanisms of Dendrite Regeneration after Neuron Injury at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, May 24.

Welcome to the TOGETHER@WORK Blog. This is Elizabeth, UC ANR's director of workplace inclusion and belonging.

Three graduate students in the laboratory of nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have won travel awards to attend the 62nd annual conference of the Society of Nematologists (SON), set July 9-14 in Columbus, Ohio.

The invasive pest spotlight focuses on emerging or potential invasive pests in California. In this issue we are covering the emerald ash borer.

Las plantas son muy similares a los seres humanos, necesitan agua para vivir y es a travs del agua como transportan los nutrientes desde el suelo hasta el cuerpo completo de la planta.

Two UC Davis entomologists/artists are spearheading a project to create an insect-themed, large-scale, ceramic-mosaic mural at the Matthiasson Winery in Napa.