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The UC Davis team conferring at the finals of the Entomology Games (from left) Madi Hendrick, Jill Oberski,Taylor Kelly and Zachary Griebeow, captain. The team went on to win the championship. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo of UC Davis faculty)
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UC Davis Entomology Games Team: Four-Time National Champions!

November 16, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team edged out Alabama's Auburn University 75 to 70 to win the national championship at the Entomological Society of America's Entomology Games, waged Tuesday night, Nov. 15 at the ESA meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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GEM fruit
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Talkin Avocados in the San Joaquin

November 16, 2022
By Ben A Faber
The meeting will include a presentation by Sam Santander (CDFA-Avocado Inspection Service), Ken Melban (CAC) and a Q/A on avocado growing in the SJV. There will be also 2 visits to GEM growers in the local area. Directions to the tour stops will be provided at the meeting.
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Master Gardener demo gardens at HARC
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Debbie's Diary: An Agventure in Ventura

November 14, 2022
By Deborah Schnur
For the first time in three years, the California Agriculture in the Classroom Conference was held in-person this past September. Ventura County, with its rich agricultural heritage, was the perfect location for the conference to make its comeback.
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Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, presents the Exceptional Emeriti Faculty Award to honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Standing Ovation for Honey Bee Geneticist Robert E. Page Jr.

November 14, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was like coming home when acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., stepped forward to accept the Exceptional Emeriti Faculty Award from Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES).
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UC Weed Science Farm Advisor position in San Joaquin Valley

November 14, 2022
By Brad Hanson
Great opportunity to join the UC cooperative extension as a weed science farm advisor! In addition to the Orchard Systems and Weed Ecology Advisor position in Colusa County posted last month (and open until November 30th) (link HERE), UC ANR just posted another Weed Ecology position to be headquarte...
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Anthophila: antho- (“flower”) + -phila (“lover, liker”)

November 14, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Put a bunch of natural historians together with their collections and images and what do you end up with - a collection of all the bee species held by some of the biggest entomology institutions around the United States: https://big-bee.net/#overview https://library.big-bee.net/portal/index.
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This framed photo of an image, once belonging to the late Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, shows an ancient rock painting from Zimbabwe. A beekeeper is using a smoker.
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In Celebration of the Bees

November 11, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen (1945-2022) was cleaning out his office in Briggs Hall, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, in the fall of 2021, he gifted me with a framed image of an ancient rock painting from Toghwana Dam, Zimbabwe, southeast Africa.
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airblast class
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Calibrate that Airblast Sprayer

November 10, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Where?:UC Kearney Ag Center, Parlier, CA CLICK TO REGISTER The Airblast Sprayer Calibration Training is a 4-hour hands-on sprayer calibration training involving classroom and field exercises.
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