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Will the real honey bee stand up? Not all bees are honey bees and not all floral visitors that look like bees are bees. Sometimes they're flies. A recent trip to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

It all begins at the Bohart. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, that is. Officials at the museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive, have just announced the complete list of weekend openings for the 2011-2012 academic year.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Weed Management Specialist University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), Department of Agronomy & Horticulture invites applications for a Weed Management Specialist, Assistant Professor, 12-month, tenure-track position, with 50...

The Kikuyugrass Pest Notes (Publ. 7458) has been revised. View the publication information online or as a PDF (http://ucipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7458.html.) Pest Notes are produced by the UC Statewide IPM Program.

The target: the dengue mosquito. The occasion: A UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar. Jacklyn Wong, who last summer received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, studying with major professor and mosquito expert Tom Scott, will headline the department's first fall seminar.

The skipper wasn't skipping. In fact, it wasn't doing much of anything. The fiery skipper butterfly (Hylephila phyleus), tangled in a spider web, struggled furiously to free itself. Not going to happen. The sticky substance stuck to her like super glue. It's a scene you don't often see.

Life stages twospotted spider mite and Lewis mite. Notice the similarities between twospotted spider mite female (top right) and Lewis mite (bottom). Photos by Surendra Dara A few species of spider mites infest strawberries grown on the California coast.

UC scientists presented recent additions to the growing body of research on conservation tillage in California at the second annual Twilight Conservation Tillage and Cropping Systems field day Sept.

Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, is on a mission. He and fellow members of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation are trying to save Franklin's bumble bee from extinction.

Organic Herbicides: Do they work?