Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Let's All Appreciate Ants! Don't Miss These Biodiversity Museum Programs
Let's take a moment to appreciate ants. You know you want to! Did you own--and treasure--an ant...
UC Davis professor Phil Ward looking for ants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A winter ant, Prenolepis imparis, encounters a jumping spider on an almond tree on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Program: Learning About the Diversity of Life
It's science-based and it's family friendly. And it's where you can learn more about honey...
This sculpture of a worker bee anchors the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Titled "Miss Bee Haven," it is by Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee and a velvet tree ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ernesto Sandoval of the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory checks out a cacao tree, also called "a chocolate tree." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In Drinking Your Cup of Joe, Do You Ever Think About Coffee Plantation Pests?
When you're drinking your daily cup of Joe to power your day, do you ever think about coffee...
The coffee borer beetle, also known as the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei. (Courtesy of L. Shyamal, Wikipedia)
Geoffrey Attardo: Targeting the Reproductive Cycle of the Tsetse Fly
It's an exciting project and a crucial one. UC Davis medical...
UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, a global authority on tsetse flies.
Graphical abstract of the tsetse fly reproduction system by Geoffrey Attardo.
Conservation Biologist Shalene Jha and Her Passion
"About 90 percent of all bees are actually solitary. So despite kind of the public impression...
A native bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes communis, in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, foraging on a purple coneflower at the former Mostly Natives Nursery in Tomales, Marin County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female sweat bee, Svastra obliqua expurgate, foraging on a purple coneflower in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)