Posts Tagged: chocolate

If You Like Chocolate, Thank the Midges!

If you like chocolate, thank the midges. These tiny flies (about 1 to 3mm) pollinate the intricate flowers of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. From those seed pods, known as cocoa beans, come the chocolate that we crave. In fact, we Americans consume...

Ernesto Sandoval, collections manager for the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, checks out the cacao tree, aka "chocolate tree." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ernesto Sandoval, collections manager for the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, checks out the cacao tree, aka "chocolate tree." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Please Pass the Chocolate Chirp Cookies

Bugs: they're what's for dinner! Well, at some dinners. In. Many. Parts. Of. The. World. Distinguished professor Bruce Hammock of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center just shared with us "Bugs:...

Chocolate Chirp Cookies, the work of Heather Baker, UC Davis graduate student studying malaria mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Chocolate Chirp Cookies, the work of Heather Baker, UC Davis graduate student studying malaria mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology cookie social! From left: account manager Guyla Yoak, contest coordinator; and winners Elvia Mayes, account manager; Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the department; Heather Baker, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Shirley Luckhart lab; Stacey Rice, junior specialist of the Larry Godfrey lab; and Mimi Portilla, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Sharon Lawler lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology cookie social! From left: account manager Guyla Yoak, contest coordinator; and winners Elvia Mayes, account manager; Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the department; Heather Baker, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Shirley Luckhart lab; Stacey Rice, junior specialist of the Larry Godfrey lab; and Mimi Portilla, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Sharon Lawler lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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