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Estudio busca optimizar el riego en palmas datileras

July 25, 2023
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
Histricamente, las palmeras datileras han crecido a lo largo de las riberas de los ros o en reas con presencia de agua subterrnea ya que requieren de agua en abundancia para producir una buena cosecha.
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A bumble bee, identified as a male Bombus californicus, foraging on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Bumble Bees and Tithonia: Perfect Match

July 25, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A perfect match: a bumble bee foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Lately we've been observing a bumble bee, identified as a maleCalifornia bumble bee, Bombus californicus, sipping nectar from the colorful orange blooms in our Vacaville pollinator garden. B.
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A youth checks out the moth displays during a recent Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What Will You See at Bohart Museum Open House

July 21, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What will you see at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 7 to 11 p.m., Saturday, July 22? The event, "A Night at the Museum," is free and family friendly.
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Amina Harris, as director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, speaking at the 2018 UC Davis Bee Symposium that she organized. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Amina Harris: A Honey of a Career at UC Davis

July 21, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Just before Amina Harris retired June 30, 2023 as director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, part of the Robert Mondavi Institute, she headed to Mexico with Slow Food Yolo to teach about her favorite subjecthoney--at the Univa University in LaPiedad, Michoacan.
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A white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Where to Meet Some Lepidopterists and Dipterists--and Learn About Mosquitoes!

July 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Moths will grab the spotlight at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Saturday, July 22 but besides Lepidopterists (those who study butterflies and moths), attendees can meet and greet dipterists (those who study flies), learn about mosquitoes from the author of a newly published children...
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Personal y profesores de UC ANR trabajan en el Centro de Investigación y Extensión de Hopland para fomentar las relaciones con la vecina Banda de los Indígenas Pomo de Hopland. Fotografía cortesía del Departamento de Protección Ambiental de la Banda de Indígenas Pomo de Hopland
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Investigadores del REC de Hopland fomentan relaciones con grupo indígena local

July 19, 2023
By Basilisa M Rawleigh
El Centro de Investigacin y Extensin (REC, por siglas en ingls) de Hopland esta localizado en las tierras tradicionales, ancestrales y no cedidas de los pueblos de Shqowa y Hopland, cuya relacin histrica y espiritual con esta zona continua hasta el da de hoy (para ms informacin sobre la historia de...
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The UC Davis Shahid Siddique lab excelled at the international Society of Nematologists' 62nd annual meeting, held in Columbus, Ohio. Pictured with Siddique are doctoral students in his lab. From left are Ching-Jung Lin, Veronica Casey, Pallavi Shakya and Alison Coomer Blundell, all award winners.
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Shahid Siddique Lab Shines at International Society of Nematologists' Meeting

July 18, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congrats to the lab of nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, for excellent presentations at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held July 9-14 in Columbus, Ohio: Alison Coomer Blundell, who will be a fourth-year doctoral candidate...
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