Test PB Collection: FTE

Many states have a designated state bird, flower, fossil, mineral, etc. In California, the state bird is the California Valley Quail, the state flower is the Golden Poppy, the state fossil is the Sabertoothed Cat, and the state mineral is Native Gold.

Integrated pest management (IPM) specialist Frank Zalom is a distinguished professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and now he's a distinguished public service scholar as well.

It's almost spring. Do you know where your butterflies are? Do you know how to attract them to your yard? Greg Kareofelas, a Bohart Museum of Entomology associate with expertise on local butterflies, will be at the Bohart Museum's open house on Sunday, March 19 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The rootstocks Bitters', Carpenter' and Furr citrandarins were developed at the USDA Date and Citrus Station in Indio, California.

Talk about the ABC's! The 3000 third graders who attended the annual Youth Ag Day on Tuesday, March 14 on the Solano County Fairgrounds, Vallejo, learned their ABC's--of bugs--at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology's booth.

When the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America, meets for its 101 annual conference April 2-5 in Portland, Ore., three UC Davis-affiliated scientists will receive special awards. One recipient is a faculty member, one is a postdoctoral fellow, and another, a graduate student.

Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) is a destructive disease with no known cure. To identify sources of (HLB) resistance in the subfamily Aurantioideae to which citrus belongs, we conducted a six-year field trial under natural disease challenge conditions in an HLB endemic region.

It promises to be a fascinating talk. Research entomologist William Meikle of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Agricultural Research Center, U.S.

From Cal-IPC's Doug Johnson: Dear Stakeholders, Cal-IPC is proposing additions to our California Invasive Plant Inventory and we are soliciting input during a 60-day comment period. I would appreciate your help in distributing this widely to your interested colleagues.

They're back! Have you checked your rose bushes lately? Along with the lush new growth, you'll probably notice a new crop of aphids. And if you look closely, probably lady beetles (aka ladybugs).