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The California Honey Festival helped take the sting out of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a two-year hiatus, the festival buzzed with life last Saturday, May 7 in downtown Woodland as visitors delighted in the bees, honey, music, food, arts and crafts, and children's activities.

Cooperative Extension agricultural specialist Ian Grettenberger of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology has received a research grant from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to study tadpole shrimp in rice.

If you haven't been around honey bees much, and can't distinguish the queen from a worker bee (sterile female) or drone (male bee), head over the California Master Beekeeper Program displays at the California Honey Festival on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland.

It's all the buzz! The California Honey Festival, set Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland, will focus on honey, bees, plants and pollination.

With the month of May upon us, wildfire season (at least here in the Sierra foothills) is just around the corner.

When officials at the Bohart Museum of Entomology asked UC Davis students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows if they would like to create a scientific traveling display case of insect specimens, one of those answering the call was postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomo...

University of California Cooperative Extension Drought Resources To Keep Your Plants Alive "Trees Come First Under Drought and Water Restrictions" Keeping Plants Alive Under Drought and Water Restrictions (English) https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8553.

"The use of synthetic chemical pesticides is central to current agricultural practices worldwide.

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If a room could beam, Room 122 of Briggs Hall certainly beamed on Saturday, April 23 during the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, showcased forest, medical and agricultural entomology.