Rangelands

Seen any Western monarch butterflies yet this year? No? Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, has. He spotted one on Jan.

I call him the Mountain Boy. A male carpenter bee, Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex, appeared in our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif.,on Feb. 27, the earliest we've seen this species. It's the smallest of California's carpenter bees and is often called the foothill or mountain carpenter bee.

Last month, I had a chance to attend the Society for Range Management annual convention in Denver, Colorado.

He will walk folks through the evolution of the insects out of the ocean and into the air, and from the air back to the ground (in the case of ants).

Do you know what a nematode is?

The Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven drew scores of families at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a science-based day always held the Saturday of Presidents' Day weekend.

Plantains are common weeds in lawns, athletic fields, ornamental plantings, roadsides, and pastures. Two species, broadleaf and buckhorn plantains (Plantago major and P. lanceolate) are commonly found throughout California year-round.

They came, they saw, they learned. And in some cases, they conquered--they conquered their fear or avoidance of insects.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 26 will feature six Faculty Flash Talks on topics ranging from honey bees to tsetse flies to digger bees to trapdoor spiders to fruit flies. The seminar, set from 4:10 to 5 p.m.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 26 will feature six Faculty Flash Talks. The seminar, set from 4:10 to 5 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall, will include Joanna Chiu, Jason Bond, Geoffrey Attardo, Rachel Vannette, Julia Fine, and Arathi Seshadri.