Backyard Orchard News
Wonderful News for the CA Master Beekeeper Program!
Oh, how much this is needed! Congratulations to the California Master Beekeeper Program, the newly...
Elina Lastro Niño (left) tests a prospective graduate of the California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beekeeper Charley Nye (right), manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, scores an applicant in the California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Time Is Ticking...Do You Fuse Art with Science?
Time is ticking...do you fuse art with science? Is your art ready to show? Organizers of...
If fuse art with science through drawings, paintings, watercolors, photographs, sculptures, textiles, video, or mixed media, consider entering the Consilience of Art and Science Show at the Pence Gallery, Davis. Here a honey bee "poses" on a yellow rose in the winter. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
If You're Into Insects...and Good Causes...
If you're into insects--who isn't?--and want to support the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the...
A Peruvian walking stick changes hands among children visiting the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, a professor of entomology at UC Davis, directs the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How many insects are there? The scientists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will tell you. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Connections Emerge at Conference in Malayasia
Talk about UC Davis connections! When UC Davis emeriti professors of entomology Peter Cranston and...
At Sibu: Penny Gullan, emeritus professor, UC Davis; Abu Hassan Ahmad of Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang; and Peter Cranston, emeritus professor, UC Davis. Cranston and Gullan now live in Canberra, Australia.
Ground-Breaking Research: Sex Pheromone of Asian Citrus Psyllid Discovered
The Asian citrus psyllid, the most devastating threat to the worldwide citrus industry, may have...
This is the Asian citrus psyllid, a mottled brown insect about 3 to 4 millimeters long, or about the size of an aphid. Widespread throughout Southern California, it is now found in 26 of the state's 58 counties. (CDFA Photo)
UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal has just discovered the sex pheromone of the Asian citrus psyillid. He has also discovered the sex pheromones of a number of other insects, including moths (background). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal (left) talks with FUNDECITRUS director Juliano Ayres on Dec. 5 at the 10th Annual Meeting of Chemical Ecology in Sao Paulo.