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It's time to revisit the "13 Bugs of Christmas!" Back in 2010, two innovators with the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology) decided that "The 12 Days of Christmas" ought to be replaced with insects.

Just call these "something sweet" and "something neat." Yesterday on Bug Squad we featured holiday gifts available at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis--from calendars, t-shirts and sweatshirts to books, jewelry, posters, and insect-collecting equipment.

UC Davis doctoral student Rebecca Godwin, whose research focuses on the phylogenetics, taxonomy, and systematics of trapdoor spiders, won a second-place award in the President's Prize graduate student competition at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Vancouver, B.C.

If you're looking for the perfect "bugly" entomological gift, be sure to stop by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis.

Imagine turning kitchen leftovers into an indoor garden and at the same time reinforcing concepts of recycling and reusing. Kitchen Scrap Gardening does just that! HAREC is preparing for 2019 education season. This spring a new second grade classroom outreach lesson will roll out.

When UC Davis doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung, who studies the parasitoid flies commonly known as spider flies, presents her exit seminar on Friday, Dec. 14, it's bound to draw widespread interest. Her research already has.

UC Davis doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung, who studies the parasitoid flies commonly known as spider flies, won the prize for best student presentation at the recent 9th International Congress of Dipterology in Windhoek, Namibia.

What a timely topic--and none too soon! And the University of California, Davis, is a major part of it.

UC Davis will host the seventh annual International Pollinator Conference, a four-day conference focusing on pollinator biology health and policy. It is set from Wednesday, July 17 through Saturday, July 20, 2019 in the ARC Ballroom.

The humble rake has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, and its role as a forest management tool ridiculed and scorned. However, most fire professionals believe rakes are a necessary part of saving California's forests.