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It's Chrysalis Time in the City

December 22, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Our unseasonably warm temperatures in November yielded 12 unexpected surprises: 12 monarch caterpillars munching away on the tropical milkweed in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif.
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Yes, an Insect Museum Can Have Mounted Heads, Too!

December 21, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When you enter the Bohart Museum of Entomology, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, on Crocker Lane, University of California, Davis, be sure to look up. Way up! Way up? Where? Up there, on your left! See them? Above the shelved books. What are they? Insects? Right, they're insects.
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Phire, Phlood, Phreeze and Fytophthora

December 21, 2016
By Ben A Faber
A great idea from Ed McFadden of Philmore You can always do something to prevent or correct the Big 4 that seem to strike avocados on a regular basis somewhere in California. Avocados in the back country are right up against areas that can burn easily.
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Gifts to Bohart Museum of Entomology

December 20, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Folks are asking how to donate to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, the world-renowned insect museum that's part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. There's a donate button on its website. All gifts are tax-deductible.
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Targeting Cystic Fibrosis

December 19, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A UC Davis entomologist who started his career studying insects--and is now focused on human health--played a key role in newly published research that sheds new light on cystic fibrosis, a chronic, progressive and genetic disease characterized by persistent lung infections and inability to breathe...
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Resistant weed workshop in Tulare during Ag Expo (update)

December 19, 2016
By Brad Hanson
A few weeks ago, we announced the California leg of a series of six national workshops to discuss herbicide resistant weeds. We're finalizing the list of invitees for the meeting in Tulare on February 15th.
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Marek Borowiec's Awesome Social Insects Award

December 16, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Marek Borowiec, who attributes his interest in ants to E.O. Wilson's autobiography "Naturalist," has just won a major award. It's more than major: it's an international award for his distinguished research and scholarly activity.
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