Rangelands

They came. They saw. They bugged out.

Wendy Powers, associate vice president, announced the 2018 winners of the biennial Distinguished Service Awards on April 11 at the UC ANR Statewide Conference in Ontario.

Want to learn more about the Melissa blue butterfly and its colonization of alfalfa?

Who invited bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day?

Take heed. The 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day theme is Where the Sun Shines. The sun is expected to shine throughout much of the campus on Picnic Day, Saturday, April 21, but it won't be shining in this place. Not a chance. It's where the sun doesn't shine. Think "south end of a beaver.

Hymenoptera, the order that includes bees and ants, dominated the winners' circle of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Students' Association's t-shirt contest.

Honey has been called "the nectar of the gods" and "the soul of a field of flowers." Whatever it's called, it's all good.

Let's do the alliteration: Bugs at Briggs and bugs at the Bohart.

(Editor's Note: If you missed the seminar, you can view it here on YouTube at https://youtu.be/KVTGmDo2LLQ).

The black-tailed bumble bee wasn't flying very well. You wouldn't, either, if you were trying to fly with a backpack on your back. Except this wasn't a backpack but sticky pollen.