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Marek Borowiec Drawn to Ants, Especially Army Ants
Marek Borowiec's world revolves around myrmecology, the scientific study of ants. Borowiec, who...
This is Lioponera princeps, one of the ants that Marek Borowiec studies. (Image by Marek Borowiec)
Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22: Yes, There's Life After Lawn
Is there life after lawn? Yes. If you're looking for plants to attract pollinators, including bees...
Monarch butterfly nectaring on Buddleia 'Purple Haze.' This will be one of the plants offered at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) will be available at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22. The milkweed plant is the host plant of monarchs; it's the only food that monarch caterpillars eat. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on the Zika Virus at ICE 2016
The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, probably isn't the only mosquito that transmits the Zika...
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre (center), a keynote speaker at ICE 2016, is flanked by the ICE 2016 co-chairs, Walter Leal (left) of UC Davis, and Alvin Simmons of the USDA/ARS, based in Charleston, S.C.
ICE 2016 in action: From left are May Berenbaum, president of the Entomological Society of America; and ICE 2016 co-chairs Walter Leal (center) and Alvin Simmons.
A Boy, Bugs, a Birthday and the Bohart
A 12-year-old boy from Mesa, Ariz. with a lifelong interest in bugs, got what he wished for last...
UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer (left) and budding entomologist Ty Elowe of Mesa, Ariz., show their bugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matching pairs of (walking) sticks on Ty Elowe's t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet the Researchers and the Three-Cornered Alfalfa Hopper
UC Davis-based research involving the Grapevine Red Blotch Disease and the three-cornered alfalfa...
The tiny three-cornered alfalfa hopper on a grape leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The three-cornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)