Rangelands

Have you ever noticed that sunflowers facing east attract more bees? An 11-member team of researchers led by UC Davis scientists reveals insight on "how and why" in a newly published article in the journal New Phytologist.

Cover crops can provide many soil and ecosystem benefits, like improving water infiltration and providing resources for pollinators. However, we don't yet know which cover crop species are best suited for specific cash crops.

All systems are "go" for a first-of-its-kind international olfaction/taste symposium co-hosted by a trio of scientists, including UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal. The Zoom symposium, Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe, begins at 9 a.m.

Our ongoing journal about our efforts to bond a livestock guardian dog pup with cattle. Funded by the Rustici Rangeland and Cattle Endowment.

You can be an understudy or you can be an underwing. Or underfoot. Have you ever seen an underwing, a moth in the family Erebidae? Today one dropped out of a tree, landing on my feet in a Vacaville park. It just missed being a part of our National Moth Week celebration.

Two identical looking species of wood-boring beetles, collectively known as invasive shothole borers (ISHB), have killed thousands of trees in Southern California and pose an ongoing threat to California's urban and wildland forests.

If you're a honey bee geneticist and you're asked to highlight your three-decade scientific career, how do you start? Societies to genes? And how do you get from there to here? Noted honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr.

Noted honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., a UC Davis and Arizona State University emeritus professor and administrator, has authored a newly published, invited article in the journal Genetics on Societies to Genes: Can We Get There from Here? that highlights his three-decade scientific career.

Honey bees, mosquitoes, cabbage butterflies, fruit flies and more... You'll hear about a variety of insects when the international symposium, Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe, takes place beginning at 9 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Wednesday, Aug. 11.

If you have a passionflower vine (Passiflora), you probably have cats. No, not the four-legged ones that meow, chase mice or cavort with catnip. These 'cats or caterpillars are part of the life cycle of the Gulf Fritillary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae) and Passiflora is their host plant.