Posts Tagged: Natural Resources

Insect 'Infomercials' You Won't Want to MIss

If you have some free time during the holidays--free time, what's that?--and you're interested in insects, you'll want to watch a series of UC Davis insect "infomercials." As a class assignment, 58 students in a UC Davis Department of Entomology and...

Suds for a Bug, or a Pitcher of Beer for a Butterfly

Suds for a bug? A bug for some suds? The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, gets underway Jan. 1. The first person to find the first...

Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Congrats to Danielle Rutkowski: Early Career Entomology Award

We're delighted that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski, a UC Davis doctoral alumna and now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State University, has just received a Royal Entomological Society Early Career Entomology...

This is one of the bumble bees that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski studies: a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is one of the bumble bees that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski studies: a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Native Plants Part of Landscape of Gorman Museum of Native American Art

"When the Gorman Museum of Native American Art relocated to a new space, campus partners and students worked to make the grounds nearby home to the types of plants traditionally used by Indigenous cultures, such as white sage, a food also used...

Black-faced bumble bee, Bombus californicus, on Purple Ginny sage, Salvia coahuilensis. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Black-faced bumble bee, Bombus californicus, on Purple Ginny sage, Salvia coahuilensis. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading for a redbud, Cercis canadensis, in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in the spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading for a redbud, Cercis canadensis, in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in the spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum Gift Shop: What's Not to Like About a Bug?

What's not to like about a bug? And there are more of them to like than you think! About a million described species of insects inhabit our planet.  That's about 80 percent of the world's species, scientists say. "Most authorities agree that...

Bohart Museum of Entomology student intern Jasmine Chow holds a selection of bug pins available in the museum's gift shop.

Bohart Museum of Entomology student intern Jasmine Chow holds a selection of bug pins available in the museum's gift shop.

A garden spider, Argiope trifasciata, in a Vacaville garden. The Bohart Museum of Entomology has an Argiope pin in its gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A garden spider, Argiope trifasciata, in a Vacaville garden. The Bohart Museum of Entomology has an Argiope pin in its gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A close-up of a unique, entomological holiday card, available for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. It is the work of UC Davis alumnus Allen Chew, an entomologist and artist.

A close-up of a unique, entomological holiday card, available for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. It is the work of UC Davis alumnus Allen Chew, an entomologist and artist.

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