Backyard Orchard News
Happy National Squash Bee Day!
In case you missed it, today was National Pumpkin Day. But it ought to be National Squash Bee Day,...
Squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, inside a squash blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jackson Audley: A Case Study with the Walnut Twig Beetle
So tiny and so destructive. It's about the size of a grain of rice but it's a killer. That's the...
The walnut twig beetle is about the size of a grain of rice. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bodil Cass and 'The Curious Case of Katydids in California Citrus'
What an interesting and innovative title: "The Ecoinformatics and the Curious Case of Katydids in...
Postdoctoral researcher Bodil Cass will speak on "The Ecoinformatics and the Curious Case of Katydids in California Citrus" at a seminar on Oct. 25 at UC Davis. Here's a photo of the fork-tailed katydid, Scudderia furcata, that she studies. (Photo by Bodil Cass)
In this image, fork-tailed katydids are all over citrus as part of a research project by postdoctoral scholar Bodil Cass of the Jay Rosenheim, UC Davis. (Photo by Bodil Cass)
Close-up of a fork-tailed katydid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Orange You Glad It's Almost Halloween?
You can't get any more Halloween than a bold (daring) jumping spider with orange...
Orange you glad it's almost Halloween? A juvenile bold jumping spider, Phidippus audax, hangs out on a showy milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A predator, a bold or daring jumping spider, crawls around on a showy milkweed. Note its iridescent chelicerae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
My safe place! The bold or daring jumping spider peers out at its surroundings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Lecture by Science Journalist Richard Harris: Why You Shouldn't Miss This
"Biomedical science was not always the hypercompetitive rat race that is has become in recent...
"Rigor Mortis," by Richard Harris, is both an eye-opener and a call to action. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)