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Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Controlling Weeds Webinar, 7/21

July 8, 2022
By Karey Windbiel-Rojas
Looking for ways to manage weeds in your lawn or landscape? Join us on July 21, 2022 at noon for UC IPM's free monthly webinar to learn about how to control weeds using mostly nonchemical methods.
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The egg of the California dogface butterfly. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Open House to Celebrate California Dogface Butterfly, the State Insect

July 8, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The Bohart Museum of Entomology will showcase and celebrate the state insect, the California dogface butterfly, at its open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, July 16. This year is the 50th anniversary of the year that the State Legislature designated Zerene eurydice as the state insect. Gov.
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The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

See you at the Stanislaus County Fair! (July 8-17) 2022

July 8, 2022
By Anne E Schellman
Summer is here, and so is the Stanislaus County Fair! Our local University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardener Program volunteers are excited to have a presence at the fair this year.
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An assassin bug, Zelus renardii,waits to ambush prey on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

No 'Assassination' Today!

July 7, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
No assassinations today! But an "assassination attempt." There it was, a leafhopper assassin bug, Zelus renardii, waiting for prey atop a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola in a Vacaville pollinator garden. Yes, it's native to North America.
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Associate Dean Jason Bond of UC Davis and Professor Eileen Hebets of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, at the "Eight Legged Encounters" open house, hosted by the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the American Arachnological Society. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Arachnid Open House Draws Large Crowd

July 4, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Arachnids rule! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, "Eight-Legged Encounters," co-sponsored by the American Arachnological Society (AAS) and held June 25 in the Academic Surge Building, drew more than 250 attendees and 40 volunteers.
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Hurrah for the red, white and blue! And the yellow. Honey bee mobiles were spinning in the wind at a Bodega Bay campsite. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue! And the Yellow...

July 4, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Today is the Fourth of July, and what better time to proclaim: "Hurray for the red, white and blue!" And the yellow. On a camping trip last week to Doran Regional Park, Bodega Bay, we admired our neighbors' display of American flagsbordered with a dozen honey bees. These bees, however, didn't buzz.
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A female Checkered White butterfly, Pontia protodice (as identified by UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro) nectars on lavender in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Checkered Past, a Checkered Future or Just Checkered?

June 30, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Have you seen any Checkered White butterflies lately? They're quite common in the southern United States and northern Mexico (they're known as the Southern cabbage butterfly), but one CW fluttered through our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., on June 23.
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