Rangelands

Simon "Niels" Groen, assistant professor of evolutionary systems biology, UC Riverside, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on "Plant Toxins and the Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions" on Wednesday, Feb. 2. He will speak in person at 4:10 p.m.

Predator Protection in Rangeland Livestock Operations One of the first projects I worked on when I started this job was a publication called Livestock Protection Tools for California Ranchers.

Gates Canyon, located just outside the city of Vacaville, in Solano County, Calif., is quite the ecosystem.

Myrmecologists Brendon Boudinot, Marek Borowiec and Matthew Prebus, all alumni of the Phil Ward laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, are drawing rave reviews for their collaborative research, "Phylogeny, Evolution, and Classification of the Ant Genus Lasius, the Tribe Lasiin...

UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology didn't sponsor his annual "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest" this year, but if he had, an eight-year-old Davis boy would have been the runner-up.

If you've been following our effort to demonstrate techniques for bonding livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) with cattle (either on this blog or through my @flyingmulefarm Twitter or Facebook accounts), you'll know that Sam the LGD pup got off to a great start on large cattle operation in Modoc County i...

How little we know about monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus... And how long misinformation can linger...

Recent wet weather in many parts of the state has spurred emergence of winter weeds. How these weeds are managed varies by the type of weed and where it's growing. In IPM, identification is always the first step toward effective pest management.

Abrir el acceso a vacas muy pesadas, de unas 1,200 libras, a uno de los ecosistemas ms frgiles y biolgicamente ricos de California, parece una forma rara de proteger a las especies en peligro de extincin.

It's Friday Fly Day--and time to post images of a syrphid fly. Syrphid flies, often mistaken for honey bees, are pollinators, too. Also known as flower flies and hover flies, syrphids hover over a flower before touching down.