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A monarch caterpillar, Danaus plexippus, munching on milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Entomological ABCs: Ants, Bees and Caterpillars

March 29, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is coordinating the department's seminars for the 2022-23 academic year and she's just announced the speakers for the spring quarter. Want to learn about ants? Check. Bees? Check.
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All in-person seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be held in Room 122 of Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Department's Spring Seminars Announced

March 29, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Seminar coordinator Emily Meineke, urban landscape entomologist and assistant professor, has announced the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's spring seminars. The seminars begin Wednesday, April 5 and will continue on Wednesdays through June 7.
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Cattle grazing on annual rangeland in Western Placer County - March 20, 2023
Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

An "Average" Year? What's That?!

March 29, 2023
By Daniel K Macon
Looking back at more than 20 years of precipitation data I've collected since my family moved to Auburn, I can't say that we've ever had an average year that is, we've never had exactly 32.68 inches of rain. Some years, like 2016-17, we measure quite a bit more than average (62.
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Martha Leija and Mario Preciado and their daughter Valentina, 8, a family from Mexico City, check over the morpho butterflies. At right is Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Morphos! The Monarchs! The Bohart!

March 28, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house, a sure crowd-pleaser is the global Lepidoptera collection, which totals some 500,000 specimens--60 percent moths and 40 percent butterflies.
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A feral or wild bee colony in a fig tree in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, southern Kenya. (Photo by James Keatley Garvey)
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Feral Bee Colony in Kenya: Nothing Short of Incredible

March 27, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"EVERYTHING that colonies do when they are living on their own (not being managed by beekeepers) is done to favor their survival and their reproduction, and thus their success is contribution to the next generation of colonies. And I mean everything.
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A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Big Bee Bash Is Beckoning: Learn About California's Native Bees

March 24, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's billed as a "Bee Bash," but it should be "Big Bee Bash." Urban entomologist Gordon Frankie, professor emeritus and research entomologist in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, will be one of the speakers.
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SWEEP Pilot Program 2023

March 23, 2023
By Ana Resendiz
SWEEP Pilot Program 2023 - A huge congratulation to the Southern Desert Region agricultural community It was great news when CDFA announced the State Water Efficiency and Engagement Program (SWEEP) Southern Desert Pilot Program, proposed for farmers in Imperial County and a portion of Riverside Coun...
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With UC Davis students (right) assisting at the Bohart Museum arts-and-crafts table, artists create arthropods and other critters, using modeling clay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Undescribed Species' Discovered at the Bohart Museum

March 22, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Spiders have been around for 400 million years and they are an incredibly diverse group with more than 50,000 species described with probably another 200,000 remaining to yet be discovered.
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UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Olivia Winokur (right) received the Hollandsworth Prize at the 2023 American Mosquito Control Association conference. With her is her undergraduate research advisor from Cornell, Laura Harrington.
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Olivia Winokur Receives AMCA's Hollandsworth Prize

March 22, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia Winokur of the Chris Barker lab won the $2600 Hollandsworth Prize for best student research presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association's annual conference, held recently in Reno.
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