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Visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Weird and Wonderful Wasps," learned about wasps and other insects, crafted gall ghosts, and took selfies with Madagascar hissing cockroaches and stick insects. It was the first special event of the fall season.

As the drought continues on the central coast, growers are trying to utilize water as efficiently as possible to produce their crops. Retaining and reusing sprinkler runoff, also referred to as tail water, can be an important strategy to increasing water conservation.

They came to learn about wasps--"The Weird and Wonderful Wasps"--at the recent open house hosted by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. They learned about such wasps as the Asian giant hornet (aka "murder hornets"), pteromalids, and fig wasps.

A lot of work has been put into monitoring the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys (Hemitpera: Pentatomidae). It has been a major problem in many areas of the country, as well as California.

It took gall to make a ghost. Really. When the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently hosted an open house on "Weird and Wonderful Wasps," the family arts-and-craft activity was to create a gall ghost.

How do you say "insect" in the Turkish language? That's a question posed by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, on its wall display of global flags and languages. That was an easy question for Dr.

En la lucha contra los incendios, hay todo tipo de obstculos y uno de tantos es un voluminoso libro de reglamentos que describe, qu tipo de permisos se requieren para eliminar el combustible, como lea y vegetacin seca, que pone en mayor peligro los bosques y comunidades.

Qu hay en California ms caracterstico que sus frondosos y robustos rboles de roble?

Piensa cultivar fresas orgnicas comercialmente en la Costa Central? Para ayudar a los agricultores a evaluar su viabilidad financiera, la Universidad de California calcul el costo de la produccin y cosecha de la fresa orgnica fresca en los condados de Santa Cruz, San Benito y Monterey.

La sanda no es solo una de las frutas ms grande en el mercado, posiblemente sea tambin la ms jugosa, toda vez que 92 por ciento de su pulpa es prcticamente agua. Es sabrosa y les encanta a nios y adultos cuando se trata de calmar la sed.