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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

Connor Hsu (right) greets visitors, talks about insects, and answers questions at a community outreach program.

Santa and the Monarch

Santa Claus and the monarch butterfly share a commonality. Both are icons, easily recognizable. One may become extinct. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Dec. 10 its plans to add the monarch butterfly to its list of threatened species under...

Santa and a monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Santa and a monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

2024: Revisiting 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'

Back in 2010, UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and yours truly, department communications specialist, wondered why no insects appear in "The Twelve Days...

UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility apiary. Image taken in 2010. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility apiary. Image taken in 2010. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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)

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