If you poked around all the bug exhibits during the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 16, you probably came away thinking: Bugs rule. In sheer numbers, diversity and special honors.
Nature isn't perfect, but neither are we! Today we watched a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) laying eggs on her host plant, the passionflower vine (Passiflora) and another Gulf Fritillary nectaring on the nearby Jupiter's Beard (Centranthus ruber). Ms.
We are creatures of habit and when we see the effects of a treatment, we can often persist in seeing the same or similar symptoms and assuming the cause is the same. In a recent case, a newly planted Pixie' orchard, planted in August had gone into an old Valencia' ground.
Used in my MDP lecture today, and so posting so I can find it easily later! http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/ Great web app for viewing current satellite orbits. More detailed info here: http://qz.
Former Smithsonian entomologist Harrison G. Dyar, noted for his research on moths and butterflies, was not your typical entomologist. He feuded with fellow entomologists, was a bigamist (married to two wives at the same time) and caused an uproar when a tunnel he dug in a Washington, D.C.
The University of California Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center will host a half-day workshop on June 28th, 2016 focused on practical approaches to managing medusahead and barb goatgrass on rangeland.
The (Zika) virus is here, and so is the mosquito. The question is whether there will be enough of both to set off an epidemic. That's what UC San Francisco medical student Joshua Lang wrote in his piece, With Summer Coming, Can the Zika Virus Be Contained?, published April 14 in The New Yorker.
For those who work with remotely sensed data of is you like looking at images from space NASA has just game you many images to look at. NASA just released almost 3 million images of the earth taken by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Sensor aka (ASTER).
Problem: There was a Valencia farmer in Ojai, farming on a rocky loam. More rocky than loam, on a 10 % slope, where he had been spraying the weeds down, the soil had gradually washed away and all he had left was scattered cobbles.
