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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)

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

Posted on Friday, December 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources

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)

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)

Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

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)

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)

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)

Posted on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

That UC Davis Beetle T-Shirt: A Big Hit Across the Pond

That UC Davis beetle T-shirt is NOT more popular than The Beatles, but it sure is a big hit, both here and across the pond. On July 30, 2024,  Bug Squad featured internationally celebrated entomologist Jeremy Nichol McNeil (1944-2024), a...

Screen shot of a news story in The London Free Press about the T-shirt collection of internationally celebrated entomologist Jeremy Nichol McNeil (1944-2024).
Screen shot of a news story in The London Free Press about the T-shirt collection of internationally celebrated entomologist Jeremy Nichol McNeil (1944-2024).

Screen shot of a news story in The London Free Press about the T-shirt collection of internationally celebrated entomologist Jeremy Nichol McNeil (1944-2024).

One of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's most popular T-shirt is The Beetles T-shirt. Pictured are Iris Quayle (left), treasurer, and past president Mia Lippey. Graduate students design and sell T-shirts.
One of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's most popular T-shirt is The Beetles T-shirt. Pictured are Iris Quayle (left), treasurer, and past president Mia Lippey. Graduate students design and sell T-shirts.

One of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's most popular T-shirt is The Beetles T-shirt. Pictured are Iris Quayle (left), treasurer, and past president Mia Lippey. Graduate students design and sell T-shirts.

Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Family, Innovation, Natural Resources

UC Davis Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology: Meet Kaitai Liu

Back in 2011, three UC Davis entomology faculty members launched the campuswide Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) to provide "academically strong and highly motivated undergraduates with a closely mentored research experience in...

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.
UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg,  brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed
Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources

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