Test PB Collection: FTE

You can make a meal out of mealworms. It's cricket to eat Cambodian crickets. And who wouldn't want a plate of teriyaki grasshopper kebobs paired with Rubicon Angus Scottish Ale? "Don't worry, be hoppy," said celebrity bug chef David George Gordon, author of the award-winning Eat-a-Bug cookbook.

Position announcement for a Weed Science Extension Educator with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Former UC Davis Chancellor James Henry Meyer (1922-2002) would have been proud.

Adult spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula). Source http://hojae.net/520. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently reported the first detection of yet another invasive hemipteran pest in the US.

Here's a wide range of information on drought resources from ATTRA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service - https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/summaries/summary.

Here's a good reason why you should not clean the fixtures around your porch lights--if you need a reason. The lights attract all kinds of nocturnal flying insects. It's like the proverbial draw of a moth to a flame. Spiders weave their webs on the light fixtures to trap their prey.

If there's ever a time to start "buggin' someone,' that would be at the Entomological Society of America's 62nd annual meeting, set Nov. 16-19 in the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Ore. There will be plenty of people to bug.

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Ready to make some human-insect connections? Cultural entomologist Emmet Brady, host of the Insect News Network, a Davis-based program on radio station KDRT 95.7 FM, is planning something special on Friday, Nov. 14 in Nevada City and you're all invited.

The GIF welcomes our new Executive Director Nancy Thomas, who joins us Monday November 10th. Nancy comes to us from the Spatial Analysis Center at Stanford. She has over 18 years of experience in managing successful remote sensing and GIS projects in both consulting and academic arenas.