Rangelands

by Mel Kendall Why do we care about pollinators? According to the Pollinator Partnership pollinators provide one in every three bites of food we eat. They transfer the pollen from one plant to another to create the seeds and fruit that feed the world, both human and animal.

Just a day in the life of a native bee on a native flower in native California. Svastra obliqua expurgata, also called "the sunflower bee," absolutely loves Coreoposis californica, sometimes called tickseed. If you were a plant, would you want to be called "tickseed?" Probably not.

There's a new look to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden, a 24,000-square-foot treasure behind the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, off Kleiber Hall Drive.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will dedicate its open house, Night at the Museum (formerly known as Moth Night) to the late Jerry Powell, longtime director of the Essig Museum Entomology of UC Berkeley, and an international authority on moths. He died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology of UC Davis hosts a Night at the Museum (formerly known as Moth Night) it will be dedicated to the late Jerry Powell, longtime director of the Essig Museum Entomology, UC Berkeley, and an international authority on moths. He died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

Professor Jerry Alan Powell, an international authority on Lepidoptera and a longtime director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley, died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

Perfect timing.

Rebecca Becky Wheeler-Dykes, the newly selected Cooperative Extension orchard systems and weed ecology advisor for Glenn, Tehama and Colusa counties, is a UC Davis alumna who grew up on a prune and walnut farm in Gridley, Butte County.

A UC Davis research team has discovered that both a harmful plant bacterium and a parasitic worm can mimic a plant peptide hormone to enhance their ability to infect plants.

In the lottery of troublesome termite infestations, Roger, a Rancho Santa Fe homeowner, hit the jackpot (a pseudonym is used to protect his privacy).