Backyard Orchard News
Spiders? Scary? Spooky?
"Look, there's a spider!" A sure-fire way to frighten arachnophobics is the very mention of...
Jumping spider eyes the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider on sedum eyes a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Garden spider captures a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lawrence J. Schwankl, CE Irrigation Specialist, emeritus, receives the Irrigation Association's 2014 Person of the Year Award.
The Irrigation Association will present their 2014 Person of the Year Award to Lawrence (Larry) Schwankl at the 2014 Irrigation Show & Education Conference in Phoenix on November 20, 2014. Schwankl's distinguished 28 year career with the University of California Extension specialized in irrigation engineering, design, operation and management of irrigation systems, soil moisture monitoring, and low-volume irrigation.
“Through his well-recognized applied research program, technology transfer efforts and service activities, Dr. Schwankl has dedicated his career to developing, evaluating and promoting water-efficient technologies and irrigation best management practices,” wrote Dana Osborne Porter, Associate Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Lawrence (Larry) Schwankl.
Partnering with The Pieris Project
If you see a white cabbage butterfly fluttering by you, net it. The Pieris Project wants...
Have you seen this butterfly? You can become a part of a global community of citizen scientists by helping graduate students with a project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Good News for the Bees!
Good news for the honey bees! And none too soon. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary...
Honey bee foraging on mustard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Anthony Cornel Knows Mosquitoes
Medical entomologist Anthony “Anton” Cornel knows his mosquitoes--and a few snakes,...
Medical entomologist Anthony Cornel with a snake in Brazil.
UC Davis medical entomologists Anthony Cornel (foreground) and Gregory Lanzaro make annual trips to Mali to study malaria mosquitoes.