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A spider executes Plan Bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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This Spider Went for Plan Bee

September 3, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The spider failed to snag a butterfly, so it went for Plan Bee. That would be the honey bee, Apis mellifera. The bee is usually foraging for nectar and pollen and not that aware of her surroundings, especially a cunning and very hungry spider.
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Charlie Summers and his colleagues, self-described "Bug People" at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Parlier, posed for this photo in 2008. In front (from left), are Elizabeth Crafton-Cardwell, Kent Daane, and Summers. In back (from left) are Marshall Johnson, Walter Bentley and Pete Goodell. (Photo courtesy of Marshall Johnson)
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Charles 'Charlie' Geddes Summers, 1941-2021

September 3, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Prominent integrated pest management (IPM) entomologist Charles "Charlie" Geddes Summers of Clinton, Utah, whose University of California career in crop pest management spanned 42 years, died Aug. 12, 2021 at age 79 of acute respiratory failure at a hospital in Layton, Utah. Dr.
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Fall quarter seminars
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Department's Fall Quarter Seminars Announced

September 2, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Nematologist and plant pathologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and coordinator of the department's seminars for the 2021-22 academic year, has announced the list of fall quarter seminars. The fall quarter seminars begin Sept.
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A lady beetle, aka ladybug, munches on an aphid, as another aphid looks as if it's waiting its turn to be eaten. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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All Hail the Lady Beetles!

September 1, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Step right up, folks! I'm a lady beetle, aka ladybug, and it's lunch time. Or maybe it's snack time, I don't know. I don't talk when my mouth is full. What I do know is this: aphids are tasty and they line up to be eaten.
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Master Gardeners, community volunteers help plant recommended drought, heat, and pest and disease resistant trees
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Master Gardener Spotlight: Redlands Tree Canopy Enhancement Team

August 30, 2021
By Janet S Hartin
It's only right that our University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) San Bernardino County Master Gardener Trees for Tomorrow' team of volunteers are our featured Spotlight' Master Gardeners for September, 2021.
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This hornworm is feeding on a pepper plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Hornworms Are Not Your Friends

August 30, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for both of you, and one of you has to go. It's not you. It's the hornworm.
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California dogface butterfly expert Greg Kareofelas (far left) chats with Rob Stewart of the PBS program, "Rob on the Road."
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Meet 'The Dogface Butterfly Guy'

August 27, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Meet "The Dogface Butterfly Guy." Naturalist Greg Kareofelas, an associate of the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology and an expert on the California state insect, the dogface butterfly, appeared several years ago on a segment of the PBS program, "Rob on the Road.
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UC Davis doctoral alumnus Jessica Gillung, now on the faculty of McGill University, is the winner of the Entomological Society of America's International Branch Early Career and Leadership Award.
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Jessica Gillung: Absolute Dynamo

August 26, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congratulations, Jessica Gillung! What an absolute dynamo! Gillung, an evolutionary biologist who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 2018 and is now on the faculty of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the newly announced recipient of the Entomological Society of Amer...
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