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A Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, sipping water at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Make Way for the Weird and Wonderful Wasps

September 20, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Meet the "meat bees." Yellowjackets, commonly known as "meat bees," in comparison to the "vegetarian" honey bees, will be among the wasps featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept.
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Cornroot worms (Diabrotica) are a persistent pest in corn fields. (Photo by Lars Plougmann, Wikipedia)
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Nicholas Miller: Targeting the Corn Rootworm

September 15, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Assistant professor Nicholas "Nick" Miller of the Department of Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, will present the first-of-the-fall seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, on Wednesday, Sept.
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Maj Rundlöf (right), a co-lead author of the research paper, and co-author Rosemary Malfi collect data at a bumble bee colony. (Photo courtesy of the Neal Williams lab)
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UC Davis Research: Flower Plantings and Wild Bee Reproduction and Pesticide Exposure

September 14, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Flower plantings offer a potential solution to support wild bee populations by mitigating pesticide exposure effects and providing key forage, according to a team of UC Davis researchers from the laboratory of pollination ecologist Neal Williams, a professor and Chancellor's Fellow in the Department...
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This is a mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron caementarium. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bohart Museum of Entomology Sets Special Events for Fall Season

September 12, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bohart Museum of Entomology officials have announced their schedule of special weekend events for the fall season. All are free and family friendly and all--except one--will take place in the Bohart Museum, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus.
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Begin with soil

September 12, 2022
by Carole Kent The power of caring and acting, and I emphasize EVERY action to care for the Earth (capital E) and earth (small e) is necessary and important. Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist from Sweden puts it this way, "no one is too small to make a difference".
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ESA Journal Targets the Spotted-Wing Drosophila

September 8, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a major project, a long time coming, and what an excellent resource for those studying the spotted-wing drosophila, a worldwide threat to the berry production industry.
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