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Alex Wild's portrait of a Mexican honey wasp, San Antonio, Texas. This public domain image is among the images in the newly launched "Insects Unlocked" Project. Donations are being accepted to make it all happen.

'Insects Unlocked': How You Can Make It Happen

March 23, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you've ever wanted free access to incredible macro images of insects and spiders, this is it. Images of arthropods in the public domain that you can download. Free. For. All.
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Satellites can be vulnerable to solar storms

March 23, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
I don't use ocean color data, but found this report of interest nonetheless. From the HICO website. HICO is the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean. HICO Operations Ended.
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Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology talks to the crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It Was All the Buzz

March 20, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was all the buzz. Visitors at the annual California Agriculture Day, held Wednesday, March 18 on the west lawn of the State Capitol, made a beeline to the California State Beekeepers' Asssociation (CSBA) booth to see the bees, pocket some honey sticks and talk bees.
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A female Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta, forages on grape-scented sage, Salvia melissodora. Note the "pollen cap." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sold on the Salvia

March 19, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ever watched Valley carpenter bees (Xylocopa varipuncta) foraging on salvia?
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Surface inversions cause spray drift

March 19, 2015
By Ben A Faber
On typical days, the air near the ground is warmer than the air above it. This is because the atmosphere is heated from below as solar radiation warms the Earth's surface. A surface inversion occurs when the atmosphere at the earth's surface is colder than the layer above it.
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Data science for the 21st century: building a new team of researchers

March 19, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
Announcing a new NSF-funded program at UC Berkeley: DS421. Three Grand Challenges motivate our program: Data. The revolution occurring in data acquisition, assimilation, and analysis, and the resulting challenges and opportunities for the research community and society at large.
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A Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, nectaring on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Luck Be a Lady! (A Painted Lady)

March 18, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The "Painted Ladies" are back in the Davis area. These are not the two-legged type, but the winged type--Vanessa cardui. They're migrating and driving UC Davis entomology and ecology students nuts.
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If you look closely, this green lacewing that fluttered onto a porch light fixture, is not alone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Eating o' the Green

March 17, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was not the greatest of St. Patrick's Day surprises. A green lacewing nailed by a garden spider? And on the porch light fixture? So true.
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JOB OPENING :: Environmental Scientist

March 17, 2015
By Gale Perez
We received the following e-mail from the California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation. ************************************************** ...
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