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Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Soils Saturated Heavily - What Now?

January 24, 2023
By Mark P Bolda
Along with the rising waters of the past few weeks, concerns about the status of our strawberries have risen as well. For their part strawberry roots, as you can see from paragraph #6 out of the book "Small Fruit Management by Galleta and Himelrick, depend on oxygen.
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This is a net-casting spider that UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland studies. (Image courtesy of Lisa Chamberland)
Bug Squad: Article

Lisa Chamberland: About Those Ogre-Faced Spiders....

January 24, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland has to say about her research at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

My Goldilocks Plant

January 24, 2023
When we bought our Ming aralia it was this stumpy thing with almost no foliage, not my idea of a plant I'd like to own. Fortunately, my husband fell in love with the plant, and home it went. It has been living with us for years, in health, in decline (more on this later!), and renewal.
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Tree prunings on the street awaiting pickup.
ANR Adventures: Article

Make hay while the sun is shining!

January 23, 2023
By Deanne Meyer
The weekend was lovely. Davis dried out sufficiently to get back into the garden and finish the important dormant pruning before trees aren't dormant! There are plenty of parts of California where people are still evacuated and unable to assess damage from weeks of rain and wind.
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An enthusiastic little girl (future entomologist?) buries her head in a beetle display at the Bohart Museum open house, much to the delight of UC Berkeley associate professor and carabid beetle specialist Kipling "Kip" Will. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Beetlemania at the Bohart: Something Clicked

January 23, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Something clicked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Beetlemania" last Sunday afternoon at the University of California, Davis. But it was not the click beetles. That "click" was the love of science in general, and the love of beetles, in particular.
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Lisa Chamberland explores the evolution and biogeography of spiders.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Lisa Chamberland to Present Seminar on Eye Size Evolution of Ogre-Faced Spiders

January 23, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland will speak on Biogeography and Eye Size Evolution of the Ogre-Faced Spiders at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25 in 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be virtual.
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Questions for UC President Drake due Jan 31

January 23, 2023
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
UC President Michael V. Drake will hold a systemwide UC Town Hall on Feb. 24 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PT). President Drake will share opening remarks, then engage in conversation with Priya Lakireddy and Jo Mackness, staff advisor and staff advisor-designate to the UC Regents.
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