Rangelands

It took gall to make a ghost. Really. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently hosted an open house on "Weird and Wonderful Wasps," the family arts-and-craft activity was to create a gall ghost.

UC Davis doctoral candidate and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia Winokur, who studies with major professor Chris Barker, will present her exit seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5 in 122 Briggs Hall.

How do you say "insect" in the Turkish language? That's a question posed by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, on its wall display of global flags and languages. That was an easy question for Dr.

En la lucha contra los incendios, hay todo tipo de obstculos y uno de tantos es un voluminoso libro de reglamentos que describe, qu tipo de permisos se requieren para eliminar el combustible, como lea y vegetacin seca, que pone en mayor peligro los bosques y comunidades.

Qu hay en California ms caracterstico que sus frondosos y robustos rboles de roble?

Despite recent rains, fire remains a danger across California, as there's still plenty of time this fall for grass, woody debris and other flammable material to become dry and ignite.

Prey tell, where are all the praying mantids? Last fall, a Stagmomantis limbata deposited her egg case, or ootheca, on a clothespin on our outdoor clothesline. On April 9, the clothespin sprang to life. Hundreds of nymphs emerged, scrambled away, and vanished.

The invasive pest spotlight focuses on emerging or potential invasive pests in California. In this issue we are covering the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB). Brown marmorated stink bug facts BMSB can cause severe crop and garden losses and become a nuisance in and around homes and other buildings.

Interested in honey bee research? Then you'll want to attend--or listen via Zoom--the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Climate change, extreme drought, intense wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic can all be linked to humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world.