Agriculture

Registration for the 2018 California Plant and Soil Conference is open. The conference will be held from February 6th - February 7th at the Fresno Doubletree Hotel and Convention Center and will include a wide array of topics of interest to California Agriculture.

For 38 years, Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen did everything he could to help the honey bees. I am basically all pro-bee; whatever I can do for bees, I do it, Mussen told the American Bee Journal in a two-part interview published in 2011.

If you've been looking for that cabbage white butterfly in the three-area county of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano to win UC Davis Professor Art Shapiro's "Beer for a Butterfly" contest, there's still hope. Shapiro hasn't found it, either.

Butterfly heaven! Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly and moth collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, is in butterfly heaven.

"Just call it a "Day of Insect Art!" Sunday afternoon, Jan. 21 promises to be a day of inspiration, creativity and delight when the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house, "Bug-Art@The Bohart" from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, Crocker Lane.

Bug-Art@The Bohart" will set the theme for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 21 in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, Crocker Lane.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is gearing up for a plethora of seminars for the winter quarter--ranging from understanding insect behavior to understanding biodiversity. The department launched the seminars Wednesday, Jan.

The Bruce Hammock lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Zagazig, Egypt, will receive a three-year $190,000 grant to screen for pesticide contamination in foods in Egypt. Research begins March 1.

How appropriate are many of the common names of insects! Take the immature form (caterpillar) of the moth, Schizura concinna, family Notodontidae. We first spotted this caterpillar on our Western redbud tree (Cercis occidentalis) in September 2010. It has a red hump.

California farmers Fong Tchieng and Vang C. Thao have a lot in common. They both have farming operations in the Central Valley. They both belong to the state's vibrant and growing Hmong farming community.