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Shedding New Light on Honey Bee Chromosomes
Honey bee geneticists with long ties to UC Davis are putting together those missing pieces of the...
"The honey bee genome,” Robert Page Jr. explained, “is composed of about 15,000 genes, each of which operates within a complex network of genes, doing its small, or large, share of work in building the bee, keeping its internal functions operating, or helping it function and behave in its environment. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee geneticist Robert Page Jr. (left) with colleagues: bee breeder-geneticist Kim Fondrk of UC Davis, and Martin Beye, former postdoctoral fellow in the Page lab and now a professor at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
The Sad State of the Overwintering Monarch Population in California
Where are all the overwintering monarchs? If you traveled to the Natural Bridges State Park in...
Overwintering monarchs in the Berkeley Aquatic Park on Nov. 26, 2015. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native bees buzz a monarch sipping on Tithonia in Vacaville, Calif. Nov. 14, 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Those Amazing Ticks: And How Hungry Ticks Work Harder to Find You
They ticked me off. Ticks can do that to you. I never think about ticks during the holiday...
Two Dermacentor occidentalis (Pacific Coast ticks) "collected" during a Sonoma outing: male on the left and female on right, as identified by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They are about the size of a sesame seed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect Apocalypse: Where Have All the Insects Gone?
"Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago...
Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, walks along one of his study areas, Gates Canyon Road, Vacaville. This image was taken Jan. 25, 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Respirator Education Webinar by UC Expert on Dec 12!
On Wednesday December 12 from 3-4 pm, Lisa Blecker, Coordinator of the Pesticide Safety Education Program will cover the importance of respiratory protection, types of respirators used by pesticide handlers, how to determine when to wear a respirator, and federal and state requirements for respiratory protection. This information is critical for employers and supervisors to ensure compliance, and for applicators to understand how to protect themselves. There is a $10 fee and 1 CE unit of laws and regs for those attending the webinar.
Register in advance for this and other webinars by going to the UC Ag Experts Talk website or by clicking on the respirator webinar event link.