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Bed bug detector under furniture. (Credit: DH Choe)
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Bed Bug-Free Holiday Hosting (Part 2)

December 11, 2019
Holidays are a time for welcoming family and friends. But what if your loved ones accidentally bring along unwanted guestsbed bugs? These insects are excellent hitchhikers, hiding easily in luggage and sometimes on clothes.
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Egg, immature bed bugs, adult bed bugs (Credit: DH Choe)
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Bed Bug-Free Holiday Travel (Part 1)

December 8, 2019
Tis the season for holiday travel. As you make reservations for rental accommodations to visit family and friends, we wanted to share a few suggestions to help you avoid bringing bed bugs home with you.
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A tropical praying mantis, Choeradodis stalii: camouflaged. Lohit Garikipati displayed five of his female praying mantids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

They Met the Mantids--and Scores of Other Critters

December 6, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
They met the mantids, walking sticks, beetle-mimicking roaches, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, tarantulas, silkworm moths, a butterfly, a dozen caterpillars and a chrysalis. It was a great day to get acquainted with insects and arachnids and learn how to raise them.
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Forest entomologist/chemical ecologist Steve Seybold with doctoral student Jackson Audley at a downtown Davis tree dying of thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Steven Jon Seybold: 1959-2019

November 20, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis, died Friday, Nov.
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Forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steve Seybold and doctoral student Jackson Audley by a downtown Davis tree with thousand cankers disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Forest Entomologist/Chemical Ecologist Steven Seybold: 1959-2019

November 20, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We are all saddened by the death of noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis.
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Casey and Raedyn (center) with the Bay/Coast Youth Summit planning team.
California 4-H Grown: Article

Bay/Coast Youth Summit — By Youth, For Youth

November 20, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
The California 4-H Youth Summits are three-day leadership conferences held at four locations throughout the state. They are designed to grow the leadership abilities of intermediate 4-H members (ages 11-13) and give hands-on leadership opportunities to senior 4-H members (ages 14+).
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Bed Bugs at various stages

Bed Bugs Winning?

November 11, 2019
Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program in Contra Costa County Updated Situation: Bed bug encounters are on the rise in California.
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A praying mantis depositing an egg mass, ootheca. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Bohart Museum Open House: How to Raise Insects

November 6, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Like to learn how to raise insects? Insects such as monarch butterflies, praying mantids and silkworm moths? The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology will host an open house on Arthropod Husbandry: Raising Insects for Research and Fun from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov.
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Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, welcomes the crowd to the Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Scary Insects and Lovable Critters at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

October 31, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Scary critters with mandibles and lovable insects with antennae gathered at the Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davi, hosted by the Friends of the Bohart. There was the bee family: the queen bee, the drone and the worker bee.
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2019 NJHA Convention California 4-H team photo
California 4-H Grown: Article

Horticulture team represented California 4-H well

October 31, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
Towards the end of National 4-H Week this year, from October 11 to 14, our California 4-H Horticulture team competed at the 2019 National Junior Horticulture Association Convention in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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