UC Gardening Blogs
UC Davis Seminars: Two USDA Forest Entomologists to Zero in on Bark Beetles
There's so much to know about bark beetles! How can a tiny insect wreak such havoc in our...
Bark beetles are the culprits in this forest image. USDA forest entomologist Chris Fettig will speak at 4:10 p.m., Feb. 1 on "Bark Beetles: How Tiny Insects Are Transforming Western Forests with a Little Help From Climate Change." (Photo courtesy of Chris Fettig)
UC Davis forest entomologist and doctoral student Crystal Homicz assists in a fire beetle demonstration at a 2018 Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. The fire beetles are in the genus Melanophila and are sensitive to smoke and heat from smoldering trees after a fire. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Master Gardener Spring 2023 Workshop Series
A new season of Master Gardener Workshops is about to start! The series kicks off with “Seed...
Oh, That Elusive Cabbage White Butterfly
No butterfly. No beer. Blame the rain. Blame the cold. As of today, Jan. 26, no one has won...
A cabbage white butterfly stops for a little catmint nectar (flight fuel) on a warm summer day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle: Crush It With a Car and It Still Survives
If you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Sunday on beetles, you may have...
A diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus, held by Bohart Museum research associate Brittany Kohler. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Open house visitors examine the diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus. In back is Bohart research associate Brittany Kohler, who collected the beetles in the Sierra Foothills. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Weeds in Landscape Plantings
[Originally featured in the Winter 2022 Issue of UC IPM's Green Bulletin Newsletter] Weeds can be...