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The Real Skinny on Migrating Monarchs, Milkweed
A recent article in Science magazine, headlined “Plan to Save Monarch Butterflies...
A male monarch nectaring Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All About Crop Pollination
What's stressing our honey bees and how are they impacted? You'll learn more about honey bees if...
Katharina Ullmann, who just received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis and is now a pollinator conservation specialist for the Xerces Society, is co-coordinator of the workshop. (Photo by Neal Williams)
Have You Seen Me?
Have you seen me? Me, being a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)? No? No one else has,...
Today Art Shapiro looked for a cabbage white butterfly along Gates Canyon Road, Vacaville, but didn't find it. The photo is from one of his 2014 field trips up Gates Canyon Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Where, oh, where is that cabbage white butterfly? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Congratulations, Robbin Thorp!
You may have heard that native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology...
Robbin Thorp with two books he co-authored in 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Robbin Thorp with students from The Bee Course. He is in the third row (far right, standing).
Bee Course instructors from 2013 are (from left) Laurence Packer, York University, Toronto; Terry Griswold, USDA Bee Lab, Logan UT; Steve Buchmann, Tucson, AZ; Robbin Thorp; John Ascher, University of Singapore; Jim Cane, USDA Bee Lab, Logan, UT; Eli Wyman, American Museum of Natural History, NY. Not pictured: Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., AMNH, Course Leader who was unable to participate that year.
Just a Matter of Time
It was just a matter of time. It was just a matter of time before the so-called "super mosquito"...
Medical entomologist Laura Norris (right side of table, second from top) works with a night's catch of mosquitoes in Mali.
UC Davis medical entomologist Anthony Cornel (left) emerges from a hut in Mali.