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Talk about the ABC's! The 3000 third graders who attended the annual Youth Ag Day on Tuesday, March 14 on the Solano County Fairgrounds, Vallejo, learned their ABC's--of bugs--at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology's booth.

When the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America, meets for its 101 annual conference April 2-5 in Portland, Ore., three UC Davis-affiliated scientists will receive special awards. One recipient is a faculty member, one is a postdoctoral fellow, and another, a graduate student.

Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) is a destructive disease with no known cure. To identify sources of (HLB) resistance in the subfamily Aurantioideae to which citrus belongs, we conducted a six-year field trial under natural disease challenge conditions in an HLB endemic region.

It promises to be a fascinating talk. Research entomologist William Meikle of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Agricultural Research Center, U.S.

From Cal-IPC's Doug Johnson: Dear Stakeholders, Cal-IPC is proposing additions to our California Invasive Plant Inventory and we are soliciting input during a 60-day comment period. I would appreciate your help in distributing this widely to your interested colleagues.

They're back! Have you checked your rose bushes lately? Along with the lush new growth, you'll probably notice a new crop of aphids. And if you look closely, probably lady beetles (aka ladybugs).

So, you're taking a winter walk through the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, part of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Gardens. You're looking for the winter daphne, Daphne odora Aureomarginta. You see a daphne sign in the Storer Garden but what's that on the sign? A butterfly? A Red Admiral? On Jan.

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Like a moth to a flame... Except this moth headed not for a flame, but to a porch light. Our porch light. And what a find. It was a sea-green mottled moth that looked a lot like lichen.

RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open date: February 3, 2017 Next review date: March 31, 2017. Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: July 1, 2017.