Youth Development

The annual Picnic Day celebration at UC Davis is going virtual! Most years, the UC IPM urban & community team participates by giving out ladybugs to kids and families at our educational booth to teach people about the good bugs that help control pests in the garden and landscape.

Congratulations to our Ventura County 4-H'ers who participated in Virtual County Presentation Day! Those who won GOLD or BLUE can move on to the Regional Presentation Event which runs now until April 24.

He was a giant in the field of chemical ecology but he was much more than that.

Blog # 2 Continuing forward Many counties are moving out of the Purple Tier and into less restrictive tiers. This means there is more opportunity for 4-H Clubs and Projects to meet.

Yes, there will be bugs. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the Bohart Museum of Entomology will be participating in the virtual 107th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 17, a traditional event being held untraditionally this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rosie Barker turns 100 on April 4, 2021. She is the oldest living 4-H alumna in Merced County! Rosie (Kiss) Barker was born in Alberta, Canada in 1921. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was two. They ended up in Livingston and then moved to Stevenson, where she grew up.

Blessed are the bees. When honey bees swarmed last week at the entrance to the Epiphany Episcopal Church in Vacaville, the site seemed quite fitting. Biblical references to bees and honey, such as "the land of milk and honey," abound. Blessed are the bees.

The statistics are staggering, shattering and incredibly sad. Of the more than 30 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States, 547,000 people have died.

A newly published UC Davis research paper pinpoints what could be the missing link in why some COVID-19 patients recover and some don't.

Feeding America published a new resource, the Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit, aimed to guide the charitable food sector to better meet the nutritional and cultural food needs of people they serve.