Nutrition & Health

The smell of pumpkin seeds roasting in the oven brings back memories. As a girl, my favorite part of the fall season was seeing Dad at his creative best.

Consider the tsetse fly. The blood-sucking insect, which transmits the parasite that causes human and animal trypanosomiasis, has wreaked havoc in African countries.

Fact: Eighty percent of the world's population eat insects. Fact: At least 80 percent of those attending the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on entomophagy ate one or more insects--a cricket, an earthworm or a mealworm. The diners ranged in age from a 9-month-old girl to senior citizens.

A monarch butterfly fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville yesterday and sipped nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) as a bird looked on. Well, sort of looked on. The bird was decorative art. The monarch was real. Now if that bird had been real, the monarch may have been a meal.

UC Davis agricultural entomologist Christian Nansen, the newly selected guest editor of a special issue of the journal Remote Sensing, has issued a call for contributions.

When you think of armor, you might think of medieval knights protecting damsels in distress. For Frank Fernandes of Legacy Ranch, though, the damsel in distress is his soil.

When using any kind of pesticide, including herbicides, it's important to read the pesticide label carefully and to be sure that you have the proper equipment for applying the pesticide correctly and safely.

From the Pests in the Urban Landscape blog :: Sept. 23, 2019 ANR: Agricultural and Natural Resources *********** UC ANR's charge is research and extension and we provide guidance about how to manage weeds using registered pesticides and by non-chemical methods.

El Mes de la Herencia Hispana comienza el 15 de septiembre y contina hasta el 15 de octubre. El propsito de la celebracin es reconocer las contribuciones y la presencia vital de hispanos y latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos.

The making of a bee garden... It was the fall of 2009 when a half-acre bee garden on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis campus, sprang to life. Headlines on colony collapse disorder dominated the news media, as scientists declared "honey bees are in trouble.