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Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows a visitor how to spread the wings of a moth. (Photo by Tabatha Yang)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Museum Moth Night: What a Night!

August 2, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Oh, what a night! It was like a moth to a flame--or 400 moths to a flame--when a record crowd surged into the Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night for its July 30th open house.
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A praying mantis is camouflaged amid the green stems, seed pods and leaves of a native milkweed as she awaits prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Walda: a Master of Disguise, Stealth and Ambush

August 1, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Where's Waldo? If you've ever looked at a Where's Waldo pictorial book and tried to spot a cartoon-like character wearing a red-and-white striped shirt, a bobbie hat, and glasses, you know it's not that easy. Many look-alikes or red herrings populate each page.
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Clusters of dark spots on a satellite image of a green pasture indicate an infestation of an undesired plant. The clusters are most dense on the west side of the pasture.
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

A different perspective on weeds

August 1, 2022
Several months ago, I got a question about weeds in an irrigated pasture. The mystery plants were slowly but surely taking over a significant proportion of the pasture, and the owner asked me to visit the property to identify the plants and options to control them.
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The larvae of the Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) inside a bee hive. The black dotes are small hive beetles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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National Moth Week: Here's One Moth that Beekeepers Won't Celebrate

July 29, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
During the 11th annual National Moth Week, one thing's for sure: Beekeepers won't be celebrating the beauty, life cycle, or habitat of the Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella), also known as "the honeycomb moth." It's a major pest of bee colonies that aren't maintained well.
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A wooly bear caterpillar investigating an ice plant on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, in April 2022.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Gotta Love Those Wooly Bear Caterpillars

July 28, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
You gotta love those wooly bear caterpillars. Richard "Rick" Karban, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, studies them. The rest of us admire them. We usually see them in the spring along the cliffs of Bodega Head on the Sonoma coast.
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Para la predicción sobre la gravedad de un incendio, la biomasa seca y la densidad de árboles vivos fueron las variables más importantes, que el estudio encontró. Fotografía por Scott Stephens
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¿Qué factores ambientales ayudan a predecir el nivel de gravedad de un incendio?

July 28, 2022
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
En la actualidad, cuando los incendios forestales alcanzan dimensiones cada vez ms impresionantes, arrasando con miles de rboles que arden en la alta intensidad del fuego, expertos de la Universidad de California han estado analizando cules son los factores ambientales que podran ayudar a predecir l...
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