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The 10th annual California Invasive Species Action Week (CISAW) will kick off Saturday June 3rd and runs to Sunday June 11th. This week is designed to raise awareness and encourage public participation in the ongoing fight against invasive species.

A colony of red ants recently roamed the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They really weren't red ants, but children wearing ant headgear, created during the family arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on ants.

Forensic entomologist Robert Bob Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, June 3 on Insects and Forensics. The open house, free and family friendly, is set for 1 to 4 p.m.

Visitors at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on ants learned all about what myrmecologist Phil Ward, UC Davis professor of entomology, calls "our friends, the ants." The three-hour open house included displays of live ants as well as specimens.

Doctoral candidate Lindsey Mack of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present her exit seminar on "Genetic and Molecular Factors Influencing Pyrethroid Response in Aedes aegypti from California" on...

The Monterey Bay area will host part of the first California Central Coast Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, or Cal-TREX.

UC Davis doctoral alumna Lacie Newton, formerly of the Jason Bond lab and now a postdoctoral fellow in the Jessica Ware lab, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York City, is the lead author of a newly published article on three sibling trapdoor spiders, Aptostichus barackobamai, A.

Fifth-year doctoral candidate Elizabeth Postema of the lab of community ecologist/professor Louie Yang, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be presenting her exit seminar Antipredator Color and Behavior in Swallowtail Caterpillars at 12:10 p.m.

Un riego ligero, antes de inundar, estimula a los microbios a cumplir su labor de extraer el nitrato del suelo En California, tras lluvias y nevadas sin precedentes, el gobernador Gavin Newsom ha suavizado las restricciones para la recarga de los acuferos.

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is widely used for biological research.