Agriculture

UC Davis second-year doctoral student Alison Coomer is now a global champion.

(This contest was featured Jan. 3 on Good Day, Sacramento. See it here.) Game over. The second annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest is over. On two separate expeditions, but at exactly 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan.

Game on! If you're thinking about taking a walk in Yolo or Solano counties to celebrate the new year--or just to get some exercise in keeping with your New Year's Resolution (you did make one, didn't you?)--bring your camera.

This is the story about an entomologist, a rhino, a woodpecker and E. O. Wilson. Back in May of 2005, entomologist Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College and a UC Davis doctoral alumnus, interviewed E. O.

UC Davis faculty and students are remembering Harvard emeritus professor Edward Osborne (E. O.) Wilson, the legendary biologist, naturalist and author who died Dec. 26 at age 92 in Burlington, Mass.

There may not be a UC Davis "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest" or "Suds for a Bug" in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic precautions and/or lockdown may interfere with it.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology is launching its second annual Robbin Thorp Memorial Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest to see who can find and photograph the first bumble bee of 2022 in Yolo or Solano counties.

December 28, 2021 KMJ580's Don York, who produces the daily Ag Report on the Fresno-based radio station, interviewed Alyssa DeVincentis and Jeff Mitchell about work they and a larger team of researchers at UC Davis conducted on water-related impacts of winter cover crops throughout the Central Valle...

Wanted: the first bumble bee of the year in Yolo or Solano Counties! If you're the first to photograph one and email it to the Bohart Museum of Entomology you'll win the prize: a coffee cup designed with an image of the endangered Franklin's bumble bee.

The UC Davis Department of Nematology's winter quarter seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m., beginning Jan. 5 and continuing through March 9, announced seminar coordinator and nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor.