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What a line-up! Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, has organized a fantastic group of speakers for the UC Davis Speakers' Stage at the California Honey Festival, set Saturday, May 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland. The event is free and family friendly.

According to the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) 2019 report for California, 179,446 acres of forestland convert to non-forest use (such as subdivisions for residential or commercial development) annually.

The California Honey Festival is the place to "bee" on Saturday, May 6 in downtown Woodland. The festival, free and family friendly, takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event celebrates the importance of bees, and promotes honey and honey bees and their products.

UC Davis faculty are among those scheduled to speak when the annual California Honey Festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 6 in downtown Woodland.

The late UC Berkeley professor John Edward Casida (1929-2018), internationally recognized for his work on pesticides and their effects on humans, was the pesticide toxicologist of his generation, based on his research, his leadership and the impact of the many alumni from his laboratory.

Call it The Battle Over a Tree Hollow." Feral bees have occupiedand abandoneda sycamore tree cavity in a Vacaville neighborhood for at least two decades. They occupy it in the spring, summer and fall, and then the colony either absconds or dies back in the winter.

John Hargrove, director emeritus of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, will present a UC Davis Entomology and Nematology seminar on "Tsetse, Trypanosomiasis, and Climate Change: What Can We Learn from Field Data Collected in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe?

Make way for the beetles! Lady beetles, green fruit beetle larvae, and stick-on bug tattoos drew inquisitive and appreciative crowds when the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) staffed an informational booth at Briggs Hall during the 109th annual UC Davis Picnic Day.

Bodega Bay dawned cold and windy on Sunday, April 24.

This is the story of how two native bees from Vacaville, Calif., traveled 1872 miles to Oklahoma City. Not really.