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Blooming Bermuda buttercup next to a residential fence.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Weeds in Landscape Plantings

January 25, 2023
By Lauren Fordyce
[Originally featured in the Winter 2022 Issue of UC IPM's Green Bulletin Newsletter] Weeds can be a problem in any landscaped areas including around trees, shrubs, flower beds, or lawns and turf.
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This is a net-casting spider that UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland studies. (Image courtesy of Lisa Chamberland)
Bug Squad: Article

Lisa Chamberland: About Those Ogre-Faced Spiders....

January 24, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland has to say about her research at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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An enthusiastic little girl (future entomologist?) buries her head in a beetle display at the Bohart Museum open house, much to the delight of UC Berkeley associate professor and carabid beetle specialist Kipling "Kip" Will. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Beetlemania at the Bohart: Something Clicked

January 23, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Something clicked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Beetlemania" last Sunday afternoon at the University of California, Davis. But it was not the click beetles. That "click" was the love of science in general, and the love of beetles, in particular.
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Lisa Chamberland explores the evolution and biogeography of spiders.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Lisa Chamberland to Present Seminar on Eye Size Evolution of Ogre-Faced Spiders

January 23, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland will speak on Biogeography and Eye Size Evolution of the Ogre-Faced Spiders at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25 in 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be virtual.
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Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.
Bug Squad: Article

Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart

January 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and beetles from Belize and more... And you're invited. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house, themed "Beetles," from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan.
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Project Learning Tree (PLT) California aims to "use trees and forests as windows on the world to increase students' understanding of the environment and actions they can take to conserve it."
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

New Additions to Bohart Museum Open House on Beetles

January 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A Cal Fire display of bark beetles and a children's activity by Project Learning Tree California are among the newly announced additions to the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on beetles, set from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan.
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A birds-eye-view of a wintering agave. Can you spot the lady beetles, aka ladybugs? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Up, Close and Personal with Beetles

January 18, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Seen any lady beetles, aka ladybugs, in your yard this year? Now that the sun's out and the worst California storms are over, check your yard for lady beetles. We saw several of them on our agave this morning.
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