Posts Tagged: biological
Paul CaraDonna Seminar: Understanding Plant-Pollinator Interactions
Conservation ecologist Paul CaraDonna, who serves as a research scientist at the Chicago...
Bohart Museum to Spotlight Household Vampires at Sept. 23rd Open House
Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice and bed bugs will be featured when the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
A female Culex tarsalis. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
A blood-fed Aedes aegypti. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
UC Davis transfer student Hanna Briggs holds a sample card showing how glitter mimics small insects. Briggs is an intern in the laboratory of Jason Bond, who is the Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
A New Look at the BOG
There's a new look to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Garden, a 24,000-square-foot treasure...
A garden in progress...A new addition to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden at UC Davis is a cacti/succulent garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cacti are thriving in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marlene Simon, curator of the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, answers a question during the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held on the Saturday of Presidents' Weekend. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis plant biology major Gabrielle "Louise" Jenness weeding a section of the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Phacelia! You're Breaking My Heart!
Cecelia, you're breaking my heartYou're shaking my confidence daily...--"Oh, Cecelia" written by...
A honey bee forages on a lacy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee gathering nectar and pollen from phacelia in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And now there are two! Another honey bee joins in the foraging on the phacelia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Signage in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A colorful banner (now shredded by the recent storms) once greeted visitors to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What is subsoil and how does it help a garden?
This is for readers who may have heard of subsoil, but don't really know what it is, let alone...
Anthony on park bench
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