Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
California Honey Festival: The Place to 'Bee' on May 6
The California Honey Festival is the place to "bee" on Saturday, May 6 in downtown...
Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, and co-founder of the California Honey Festival, talks about honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, dresses as a bee at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The annual California Honey Festival draws an average of 40,000 people. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
John Hargrove: Targeting Tsetse, Trypanosomiasis and Climate Change
African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite. People...
John Hargrove in South Africa providing expertise on the tsetse fly. (Photo by Pietro Ceccato of the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team)
Inside the World of Caterpillars with Sam Jaffe of The Caterpillar Lab
Want to learn more about native caterpillars and their importance in the world? Sam Jaffe,...
The caterpillar of a "Gravity" Cecropia giant moth. (Photo by Sam Jaffe, the Caterpillar Lab)
Top Undergrad Poster at UC Davis Chemistry Symposium: Marijuana Research
Today being April 20 and a worldwide focus on cannabis, it seems appropriate to mention a research...
UC Davis entomology major Rachel Swey is a research assistant in the laboratory of UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock.
The Art of Maggot Art
They came, they saw, they participated. Youngsters--and the young at heart--headed over to Briggs...
UC Davis entomologists, first-year doctoral students Abigail Lehner (front) of the Neal Williams lab, and Iris Quayle of the Jason Bond lab, staff the Maggot Art table at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Iris Quayle of the Jason Bond lab supervises the Maggot Art project, as young artists dip maggots into water-based, non-toxic paint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Watson Owens, 2, of Carmichael, watches a maggot crawl on his Maggot Art project. His father, Sean Owens, is a UC Davis alumnus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Winter Owens, 5, of Carmichael, displays her Maggot Art masterpiece. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Maggot Art drying on a bulletin board in Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus. Soon they will be ready to take home. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)