Ongoing research

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Honey bee foraging on mustard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Good News for the Bees!

October 29, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Good news for the honey bees! And none too soon. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today (Oct.
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Fall workshop

October 29, 2014
Fall Fruit Tree Workshop and Nature Walk November 1, 10-noon Davis Ranches See flyer for details Do you like to garden? Do you like to volunteer? Deadline to become a UCCE Master Gardener of Colusa County is November 7. 2015 UCCE Master Gardener of Colusa County calendar is now available.
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Medical entomologist Anthony Cornel with a snake in Brazil.
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Anthony Cornel Knows Mosquitoes

October 28, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Medical entomologist Anthony Anton Cornel knows his mosquitoes--and a few snakes, too. When he was doing research in Brazil in September, he draped a snake around his neck and posed for the camera. His favorite research subjects, though, are mosquitoes.
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Workshop: create maps for Ebola's first responders

October 27, 2014
By Maggi Kelly
Workshop: HOW TO CREATE MAPS FOR EBOLA's FIRST RESPONDERS which are used by Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, WHO and others. The workshop quickly shows how to easily use a humanitarian mapping freeware so anyone can contribute to this global mapping collaboration.
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UC Davis scientists in the Walter Leal lab have discovered the odorant receptor in the Culex mosquito that repels DEET. From left are
project scientist Pingxi Xu; postdoctoral scholar Young-Moo Choo; AgChem graduate student Alyssa De La Rosa; and Professor Leal. (Photo credit: Academic Technology Services/Mediaworks)
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Unraveling the Mystery of DEET

October 27, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You spray DEET on your arms, and those pesky mosquitoes leave you alone. It works. However, not everyone wants to use DEET, a synthetic insect repellent. There's that smell, for one thing.
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