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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.

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.

Are you ready for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day? Plans are being finalized for the popular "Day of Science." Scheduled Saturday, Feb.

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.

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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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.

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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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.