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Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
Hear That Buzz? Long-Awaited UC Davis Bee Genetics Book Updated
Hear that buzz? The long-awaited update of the landmark UC Davis-authored book, Queen Bee Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. (1907-2003), “the father of bee genetics,” and his former doctoral research...
UC Davis professor Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. with then graduate student Robert E. Page Jr., circa 1980.
A sign in front of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Faciility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Applying Entomological Research in a Cooperative Extension Context
How do entomologists apply research in a Cooperative Extension program? You'll want to hear UC Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) entomology advisor Dylan Beal, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Program, present a seminar, hosted by the UC...
Close-up of seeds in an unripened strawberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Samantha Murray: For the Love of Bees and the Love of Music
Hearing a queen bee piping is music to her ears. So is the shimmering sound of the harp. Meet Samantha Murray, the newly selected garden coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven, a pollinator and demonstration garden installed in the fall...
UC Davis distinguished professor (now emerita) Diane Ullman with some of the art that she and Donna Billick of the UC Davis Art-Science Fusion Program installed in the Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A ceramic-mosaic sculpture of a worker bee, the work of Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is how the UC Davis Bee Haven looked in May of 2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The buzzing of the bees may some day mingle with the harp music of Samantha Murray, new coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven.
Cole and Connor: Connecting with Insects
The annual UC Davis Bio Boot Camps not only connect youths with nature, but with each other. Meet Cole Cramer, and Connor Hsu, both 15, and both students at La Canada High School, La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. They met when...
Cole Cramer (left) and Connor Hsu heading to Arizona to attend the 2024 Entomological Collections Network (ECN) conference, held Nov. 9-10 in Phoenix.
Oliver Keller, president of the Entomological Collections Network (ECN), welcomes young entomologists Connor Hsu (center) and Cole Cramer to the 2024 ECN conference, held in Nov. 9-10 in Phoenix.
The two young entomologists-- Connor Hsu (left) and Cole Cramer--at the Entomological Society of America meeting, held in Phoenix.
Community outreach programs are part of the entomological activities of Cole Cramer (shown) and Connor Hsu, who founded the Lorquin Scholars.
Connor Hsu (left) and Cole Cramer displaying insect specimens at Lorquin Scholars' event.
Connor Hsu (right) greets visitors, talks about insects, and answers questions at a community outreach program.
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...
