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Are you ready to meet awesome "Annie" at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6? You won't want to cuddle her, though. Annie is a pet scorpion belonging to Emma Jochim, a second-year doctoral student n the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

All mistletoes infest and grow as parasites on trees and large shrubs. In some cases, the host plant can be severely damaged. But recent studies have shown that broadleaf mistletoes can shelter and feed wildlife, including birds and small mammals.

If you're a wanna-be entomologist or arachnologist, or just curious about insects and arachnids, you'll love the live animals and specimens that will showcased in the Bohart Museum of Entomology booth at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.

Arachnids, myriapods, the California dogface butterfly and the Asian giant hornet will be among the critters or specimens sharing a Bohart Museum of Entomology booth at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the UC Davis Conference Center, 555 Alumni Lane.

When friends own almond acreage, and invite you to see the bees and the blossoms on a brilliant day in mid-February, you go. Of course, you go. Almond pollination season is a delight to see and record. Almonds rank No.

By Ashley Han Marketing and Communications UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Bill Patterson, longtime butterfly collector and supporter of the University of California, Davis, is giving $1 million to the university's R.M.

There may or may not be a silver lining for conservationists trying to save the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly, but postdoctoral research scholar Erica Henry, of Washington State University (WSU), is among those trying to do so.

Erica Henry, a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington State University (WSU), will present an in-person and Zoom seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, on "Insect Conservation in an Uncertain Future" on Wednesday, March 2 in 122 Briggs Hall.

Congrats to Professors Diane Ullman and Joanna Chiu of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

Two professors in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are recipients of the UC Davis Academic Senate's 2022 Distinguished Teaching Awards.