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What Effect Did the California Drought Have on Butterflies?

Remember the California drought of 2011 to 2015? What effect did that have on butterflies? Newly...

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Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 1:28 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (28), butterfly research (1), climate change (2), Climatic Change Responses (1), Impacts of Millennium Drought on Butterfly Faunal Dynamics (1), Matt Forister (1), UC Davis (142)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

This BOG in the Heart of UC Davis Is a Treasure

"A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and...

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Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 3:59 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Biological Orchard and Gardens (1), biology (1), BOG (1), bumble bees (2), carpenter bees (1), Emily Dorrance (1), Ernesto Sandoval (1), heritage fruit trees (1), honey bees (19), UC Davis (142)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Economic Development Environment Innovation Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Welcome, Anise Swallowtail!

The Anise Swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon, fluttered into our pollinator garden and headed straight...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 6:12 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anise Swallowtail (1), Art Shapiro (28), Bombus vosnesenskii (2), Davis (3), Papilio zelicaon (1), UC Davis (142), University of California (1), Verbena (1), yellow-faced bumble bee (2)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Health Innovation Natural Resources

UC Davis Design, Entomology Students to Showcase 'The World of Insects' at Art Exhibition June 6

Take the creative and collaborative minds of students studying design and entomology at the...

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Posted on Monday, June 4, 2018 at 2:11 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: ants (2), crickets (1), design (1), design students (1), Diane Ullman (1), entomology students (1), Gale Okumura (1), insects (2), marketing (1), Morissa Rubin (1), UC Davis (142), World of Insects (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Food Health Innovation

The Bee and the Butterfly

So here's this Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) clinging to a lavender stem in our pollinator...

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Posted on Friday, June 1, 2018 at 4:42 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Agraulis vanillae (7), Art Shapiro (28), catmint (2), Gulf Fritillary (5), honey bees (19), lavender (2), UC Davis (142)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Yard & Garden

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