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Medical entomologist Thomas Scott (right), professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and a newly elected fellow of the Entomological Society of America, knows his foe well. His foe? The day-biting, tiger-striped mosquito, Aedes aegypti.

If youve ever taken target practice, you probably know that accuracy and precision are not necessarily the same things a rifle that always shoots low and to the left of the bulls-eye is precise but is not accurate. The same idea holds true for herbicide applications.

Ghouls just like to have fun at Halloween. So do entomologists. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology. located at 1124 Academic Surge, University of California, Davis, holds its annual Halloween Open House, guests are in for a real treat. A few tricks, too--in the form of tricky costumes.

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What's a fly doing there? Just soaking up the sun. A fly that landed on one of the two colorfully painted beehive columns that grace the entrance to the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the University of California, Davis, seemed like part of the scene.

Briggs Hall at UC Davis is a good place to learn about soapberry bugs. That would be "the rapidly evolving soapberry bugs." Hugh Dingle, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.

So you're thinking about becoming a backyard beekeeper...

They're called "wonder flies." And for a good reason. Folks wonder what they are.

On November 9, weed biology and management information will be presented at the Salinas Valley Weed School 2010 (contact: Richard Smith). For more information check the calendar section at the UC Cooperative ExtensionMonterey County website. http://cemonterey.ucdavis.

*This was an article that Doug Munier and I put together and tweaked for a couple orchard crop newsletters in summer/fall 2010. I thought I'd repost it here for posterity...