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Did You Hear the Buzz?

Fisheye view of the honey bee display at Madden Hall, Dixon May Fair. In front is Cammie Garton, fair employee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you attended the 141st annual Dixon May Fair, held May 5-8, and saw the honey bee display in...

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Posted on Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:11 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee suits (1), beekeepers (1), Dixon May Fair (1), Elina Lastro Niño (2), Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (11), smokers (1), UC Davis (119)

What You Should Know About the Zika Virus

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The (Zika) virus is here, and so is the mosquito. The question is whether there will be enough of...

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Posted on Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (5), Culex quinquefasciatus (2), ICE (1), International Congress of Entomology (1), pregnancy (1), UC Davis (119), Walter Leal (6), Zika virus (4), Zika virus symposium (1)

What Color Is Your Pollen?

Yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, packing red pollen as it heads for an Echium (Pride of Madeira) in Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The next time you see a yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) packing pollen, check out the...

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Posted on Monday, April 4, 2016 at 5:13 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bombus vosnesenskii (1), Bumble Bees of North America (1), Carquinez Straits (1), Robbin Thorp (6), UC Davis (119), Vallejo (1), yellow-faced bumble bee (1)

Lasering in on the UC Davis LASER Event on April 14

UC Berkeley biologist Ciera Martinez studies fruit flies but she will be speaking on

She researches fruit flies but she'll be discussing "The Concealed Beauty of Plant...

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Posted on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5:49 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anna Davidson (2), Cierra Martinez (1), Ian Pollock (1), LASER event (1), Sarah Strand (1), UC Davis (119)

Congratulations, Bruce Hammock! McGiff Memorial Award

Bruce Hammock (center) with colleagues Dipak Panigrahy (left) of Harvard Medical School and Guodong Zhang of the University of Massachusetts. This photo was taken at the International Winder Eicosanoid (WEC) Conference in Baltimore, where Hammock received the first-ever John C. McGiff Award.

What an honor! And so deserving. He's an entomologist, trained to find ways to control insect...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 5:38 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bruce Hammock (5), Dipak Panigraphy (1), entomology (2), Guodong Zhang (1), International Winder Eicosanoid Conference (1), John McGif (1), UC Davis (119)

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