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Butterflies are good learners--just ask Martha Weiss. Weiss, associate professor of biology at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

"Where is the love for bugs?" science writer Rachel Nuwer asked in a recent article published in the New York Times. Well, there is that "ick" factor.

Lynn S. Kimsey is an entomologist, and has been one for most of her life. So begins the National Science Foundation's recent LiveScience feature on the UC Davis entomologist. It's an interesting piece.

The Weed Research and Information Center (WeedRIC) has developed three educational on-line videos that are directed towards homeowners and Master Gardeners. These three videos are housed on the wric.ucdavis.edu website under the Quick Links Online Education Program button.

When self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis created the morphologically correct honey bee sculpture for the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis, she expected it to be a focal point. And it is.

Union Pacific invites applications for a management position overseeing their vegetation control program for the Western Region.

Brown marmorated stink bug adult male (Photo by: Surendra Dara, UCCE and Rodney Cooper, USDA-ARS) Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys Stl was recently found in San Luis Obispo County in an incoming shipment of household items from Pennsylvania, where it is considered as a serious pe...

What's that? When award-winning photographer Teresa Willis of Vacaville encountered a red caterpillar on a dirt road at about 6000 feet in a canyon north of Paradise Valley, Nev., she did what photographers do--she captured an image of it.

Yellow nutsedge found a good home in warmer areas of California and purple nutsedge is sometimes present as well.

Ants are such tiny critters. But they're much more than that. Much more. Ant specialist Brian Fisher, an entomologist with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, describes ants as "industrious, tenacious workers who live in colonies and obey a hierarchy of rulers.