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Mosquito Expert Julián Hillyer's Topic: 'Not So Heartless!'
What a catchy title: "Not So Heartless." Wait, there's more! "Not So Heartless:...
The malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Julián Hillyer, associate professor of biological sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Nashville, Tenn., will speak on the malaria mosquito at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, in 122 Briggs Hall, UC Davis. (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)
Zeroing in on the Deadly Game Between Honey Bees and Their Predators
If you're around honey bees, you've seen their predators: crab spiders, orb weavers, praying...
A crab spider nails a honey bee while another honey bee watches. This image, on bluebeard, Caryopteris x clandonensis, was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who's Speaking at UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Seminars
From honey bees to bumble bees to nematodes to mosquitoes to walnut twig beetles... Nine speakers...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on Cleveland sage. One of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminars during the fall quarter will be on "Bumble Bee Movement Ecology and Response to Wildfire" by doctoral candidate John Mola for his exit seminar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What You May Not Know About Hummingbirds
Pollinators aren't just bees, butterflies, beetles and bats. They're also birds, like...
Hummingbirds eat insects and insects eat hummingbirds. Here a praying mantis lurks by a hummingbird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hummingbird flies in for a quick burst of energy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Community Ecologist Rachel Vannette: Hellman Fellowship to Research Pollinator Microbiomes
Congratulations to community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor in the UC Davis...
A honey bee heads for a lupine blossom. Nectar-living microbes release scents or volatile compounds, too, and can influence a pollinator’s foraging preference, according to UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette, recipient of a Hellman Fellowship. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
