Backyard Orchard News
Times Flies When You're Studying Flies! Bohart Museum Open House Jan. 12
Time flies when you're having fun? No, time's fun when you're studying flies! Take it from the...
UC Davis graduate student Socrates Letana collecting flies in the Philippines. He studies botflies with major professor Lynn Kimsey.
UC Davis fourth-year doctoral student Charlotte Herbert Alberts holds her acrylic painting of an Assassin fly (Ommatius sp.) that she painted to celebrate World Robber Fly Day, April 30.
Congratulations, Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page!
Internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., is a pioneer researcher in...
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page examines a swarm at Arizona State University, where he served as provost.
Zeroing in on the Spotted-Wing Drosophila
It's an invader that has long attracted attention--and alarm--in California agriculture. "The...
UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Brian Gress will discuss "Host Selection and Resistance Evolution in Drosophila Suzukii" at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 9 in 122 Briggs Hall.
Bring on the Bumble Bees!
It was the morning of Jan. 1, 2018, a year and four days ago. While strolling the grounds of the...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectars on rosemary on Jan. 1, 2018 at the Benicia marina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor Robbin Thorp, a global expert on bumble bees, chats with "Bumblebee" movie fan, Adne Buruss, at a Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
No Winner Yet in Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest!
If you've been looking for that elusive first-of-the-year cabbage white butterfly in the...
If you collect the first-of-the-year cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano, you could win the "Beer for a Butterfly" contest. Here a cabbage white heads for lantana.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)