Posts Tagged: Agriculture
Franco: Deciphering Soil Macrobiome and Ecosystem Responses to Global Change
It promises to be an outstanding seminar. André Custodio Franco, assistant professor,...
What's up with soil and global change? Andre Franco of Indiana University will speak on "Deciphering the Soil Macrobiome: Belowground Communities Driving Ecosystem Responses to Global Change" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 18 in 122 Briggs Hall. It also will be on Zoom and then archived. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
CAMBP Classes on Pollinator Gardens and Apiary Technology
Like to learn about planning a year-round native pollinator garden or about technology in the...
Honey bee nectaring on tower of jewels, Echium wilpretii. This is a non-native, but isn't it pretty? The California Master Beekeeper Program is offering a class on "Planning Year-Round Native Plant Pollinator Garden" on Nov. 17. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A class on "Technology in the Apiary" will be offered Dec. 7 by the California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo courtesy of the California Master Beekeeper Program)
Why Phoenix Is the Place to Be Nov. 10-13
Phoenix is the place to be Nov. 10-13. That's the site of the Entomological Society of America's...
The UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will be selling its member-designed t-shirts at the ESA meeting in Phoenix. Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab, and Mia Lippey of the Meineke lab, will be giving presentations and also staffing the EGSA table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student Grace Horne, who studies with urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, will present the Environmental Entomology’s People’s Choice Runner-up presentation at the ESA meeting. It's titled "Specialist Herbivore Performance on Introduced Plants during Native Host Decline."
Pass the Crickets, Please!
"Crickets, anyone? Free sample!" Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for...
Postdoctoral research scientist James Starrett, of the arachnology lab of Professor Jason Bond, director of the Bohart Museum, gets ready to eat a crickette. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Down the hatch! UC Davis research scientist and arachnoogist James Starrett enjoying a crickette. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis student Nia Rhodes, an atmospheric science major, stopped by the cricket booth with her mother, Elizabeth Rhodes of Los Angeles, who is wearing a "UC Davis Mama" shirt. It was Davis Parent and Family Weekend. In the foreground is Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eliza Litsey to Discuss a Novel Queen Honey Bee Treatment
If you're curious about honey bees, queens and juvenile hormones, you'll want to attend or...
Pointing out the queen bee. Apiculturist Eliza Litsey will present her exit seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 4 in 122 Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)