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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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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...

El riego y desage adecuados son de vital importancia para la salud de las plantas y rboles.

"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.

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.