Rangelands

Bee gardeners are good stewards of the environment, which includes making the most of our precious water supplies in the garden. But are you getting the most Bees Per Gallon? We've recently completed a five-year study to evaluate the bee-attractiveness of common northern California landscape plants.

Evolutionary biologist Jessica Gillung, 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 America's International Branch Early Career and Leadership...

The late Robbin Thorp, UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor and a tireless advocate of pollinator species protection and conservation, would have been proud.

Oh, to be a praying mantis, and hide among the flowers waiting for prey. On a warm sunny morning in Vacaville, Calif., this female Stagmomantis limbata positioned herself in a patch of Mexican sunflowers, Tithonia rotundifola.

Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're influenced by Jacques Cousteau, and encouraged by your high school biology teacher. So you launch a project to collect, record and sketch the intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Bay.

UC Davis entomologist Lynn Kimsey is making waves for her newly published research on intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Baya high school science project from 50 years ago.

Hear that buzz? Are you ready for National Honey Bee Day? It's held the third Saturday of August and that's tomorrow. Launched in 2009 by a small group of beekeepers petitioning the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture (USDA), the day basically "honors" honey bees and beekeeping.

Our showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) is putting on a show. The towering plant--a good eight feet--anchors the garden as we patiently wait for monarch butterflies to arrive and lay their eggs.

Congrats to biological chemist and green pesticide developer Thomas Tom Sparks, winner of the Entomological Association of America's 2021 Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology. ESA announced the award today.

Curious goats milled around the masked elementary school students who were raking out the livestock stalls.