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  • Honey bee nectaring on tower of jewels, Echium wilpretii. This is a non-native, but isn't it pretty? The California Master Beekeeper Program is offering a class on
    CAMBP Classes on Pollinator Gardens and Apiary Technology

    Like to learn about planning a year-round native pollinator garden or about technology in the apiary?  The California Master Beekeeper Program  (CAMBP) has announced its last two classes of 2024. One is a...

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    Ryan Tompkins Wins Award for Outstanding Contributions to California Forestry

    University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) Forestry Advisor Ryan Tompkins was posthumously awarded the Francis H. Raymond Award by the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (Board) on...

  • Samuel Davidson Laughlin, shown here at his home in Castle Rock, Wash., contracted malaria when he was a color bearer for the Union Army during the Siege of Vicksburg.
    Mosquitoes, Malaria and the Civil War

    Not many Americans think about mosquitoes and malaria on Nov. 11, Veterans' Day. But they should. The mosquito played a major adversarial role in our nation's Civil War. Some 30,000 soldiers died of malaria, and more...

  • The UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will be selling its member-designed t-shirts at the ESA meeting in Phoenix. Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab, and Mia Lippey of the Meineke lab, will be giving presentations and also staffing the EGSA table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    Why Phoenix Is the Place to Be Nov. 10-13

    Phoenix is the place to be Nov. 10-13. That's the site of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, with thousands of entomologists descending upon the city and the Phoenix Convention Center (PCC).  And...

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