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This crew, shown here with nematology faculty member Shahid Siddique, staffed the nematology collection at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. With him (from left) were then doctoral students Alison Coomer (now Blundell), Veronica Casey, Pallavi Shakya and Ching-Jung Lin.
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Right This Way to the UC Davis Nematode Collection!

February 3, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Nematodes--and the faculty and graduate students who study them--will share the spotlight from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8 in the Katherine Esau Science Hall. The occasion: the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. The Esau Hall is located near Briggs Hall, off Kleiber Hall Lane.
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Emma "Em" Jochim, UC Davis doctoral candidate, on a field trip
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Meet Butters at the Bohart on Biodiversity Museum Day

January 30, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hi, Butters! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, you'll probably meet a scorpion named Butters. It's a new arrival, donated by a retired educator. She did not name it Butters.
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The yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenzkii, on an oak leaf at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park, as photographed on Jan. 11 by Michael Kwong.
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Winning Bumble at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park

January 28, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win a regional bumble bee contest, a contest you didn't know about at the time.
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UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro relates how he collected the 2025 winning cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Big Blue: A Sweet Ride for a Cabbage White Butterfly

January 27, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro collected the first cabbage white butterfly of the year on Thursday, Jan. 23 to win his annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, the butterfly rode in sweet style to his campus office/lab--in a Big Blue soda bottle.
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Jiue-in Yang, assistant professor of nematology at UC Riverside
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Artificial Intelligence and Nematodes

January 24, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Can artificial intelligence be used in nematode management strategies? You won't want to miss a UC Davis seminar by Jiue-in Yang, assistant professor of nematology at UC Riverside.
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De los granjeros que respondieron a la encuesta, aproximadamente dos terceras partes están de acuerdo en que el cambio climático está ocurriendo y que requiere acción. Los granjeros dijeron que para adaptarse al cambio climático están gestionando los recursos hídricos, manteniendo la salud del suelo y usando fuentes de energía renovable.
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El cambio climático transforma y desafía a la agricultura

January 22, 2025
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
A medida que el clima continue cambiando, los riesgos a la agricultura seguirn creciendo. Ese es el punto principal de un reciente reporte publicado por un equipo que incluye a investigadores de UC Merced y la Divisin de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales de UC.
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