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Franklin's bumble bee. (Photo by Robbin Thorp)
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Have You Seen Me?

October 13, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's good to see so many people looking for the critically imperiled Franklin's bumble bee, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may soon list as endangered and provide protective status.
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UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal is the recipient of ESA's Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Hail to the Chairs

October 12, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's a Good News Day. The Entomological Society of America (ESA) just announced that among the 2011 award recipients are two UC Davis faculty: Michael Parrella and Walter Leal.
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Praying mantis with remnants of a meal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What's That Bug?

October 10, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you don't know what it is, don't kill it. That insect in your garden could very well be a beneficial insect. If you operate on the "shoot-first-ask-questions later" or "the only good bug is a dead bug," no telling how many insects--and generations--you'll be destroying.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

What is the cheapest weed to kill?

October 10, 2011
By Chris J McDonald
How many times do we see some plant that looks unusual, we let it sit for a while, pondering its existence (maybe that's just me), and then realize its some plant we have never seen before?
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Predator and the prey: Assassin bug (left) corners a pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Gotcha!

October 7, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It wasn't much of a fight. The assassin bug scored a TKO. Here's what happened: an assassin bug ambushed a spotted cucumber beetle in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Faciility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. It was "good guy vs. bad guy.
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IPM specialist Frank Zalom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It's Off to Berlin

October 6, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's off to Berlin for integrated pest management (IPM) specialist Frank Zalom, professor and former vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and soon-to-be-president of the 6000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA) Zalom is one of three Americans invited to speak at an internati...
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Bioassays for residual herbicides

October 6, 2011
By Brad Hanson
Residual or soil applied (ie. preemergent or PRE) herbicides can provide many benefits to weed managers.
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Honey bee, packing red pollen from a nearby rock purslane, nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Honey of an Event

October 5, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Did you know that honey bees visit more than two million flowers just to make a pound of honey? Two million visits for one pound? That's just one of the tidbits about honey that will be mentioned Friday, Oct. 21 at the all-day Honey! event at the UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Center.
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Honey bee foraging on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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In Between the Rains

October 4, 2011
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Mexican sunflowers. Gaillardia. The Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, is awash with autumn colors, despite the persistent rains.
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