What an un-bee-lievably generous gift! Debra Jamison, state regent of the California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. loves bees. So when it came time to select a fundraising project, she knew what she wanted to do.
Adult male spotted wing drosophila. Note the dark spot on the tip of its wings. (Photo by Larry L. Strand) It's cherry growing season and a good time to begin looking for spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii.
A unique effort to raise funds to collect insects in the biodiversity hotspot of Belizewhich would result in specimens for the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, among other goals-- is galloping into the home stretch.
Irrigation Scheduling in a Drought Year Field Meeting Final Chilling Hours Predicting Peach Harvest Sizing Peach Fruit Website Resources Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Alert 37th Annual Nickels Field Day...
The statistics are alarming. "Every 45 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria, a disease spread by a single mosquito bite. There are more than 200 million cases of malaria each year, and nearly 1 million of those infected die from the disease most of them children under the age of five.
In the 1920's and 30's field bindweed (Convovulus arvensis) was a major weed in the western US; so much so that coordinated research was undertaken by the most prestigious Agricultural Universities from California to Oklahoma to figure out what to do.
