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This is the Atlas moth, the largest moth in the world. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Open House: Like a Moth to a Flame!

July 21, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Want to learn more about moths? If you attend the Virtual Moth Open House hosted by the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, then it may be like a "moth to a flame.
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Ph.D. student Mike Johnson uses Evalutree to assess the health and economic value of oak woodlands.
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New mobile app identifies hazardous trees for public safety

July 21, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky, wrote Kahlil Gibran. But trees falling into power lines have sparked catastrophic fires and falling trees have injured nature lovers. To prevent power outages, PG&E looks for trees near power lines that need to be trimmed or removed.
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Damselfly Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey
Under the Solano Sun: Article

A Different Take on Dragonflies

July 21, 2020
There is a children's book titled Water Bugs and Dragonflies, published in 1982 by Doris Stickney. The purpose of this book is to help young children cope with the death of a loved one. The characters in the book are fun-loving water bugs and dragonflies.
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Current orchard water status, June 19, 2020 CERES imagery

July 21, 2020
By Blake L Mccullough-Sanden
Blogs 1 and 2 from May and June were rather complicated discussions of remote sensing imagery (focusing mostly on CERES images of these pistachio demo fields) and why the red (dry) to blue (wet) colorized image scale doesn't always remain constant from one image event to the next.
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