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UC Davis ENT Seminars: Look Who's Speaking
From honey bees to butterflies to nematodes--those will be some of the topics when the UC Davis...
Honey bees will be among the topics at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology fall quarter seminars. This bee is heading toward gaura in early morning. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
No Labor Day Holiday for the Honey Bees
Holiday? What holiday? It's Labor Day, but honey bees aren't relaxing. They're out in force...
A honey bee packing a huge load of orange pollen from zinnias as it heads for another blossom in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, its wings a'buzzing, slips through the petals of a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All finished here. Next zinnia here I come! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Congrats, Professor Howard Ferris, Nematologist Extraordinaire
There aren't that many nematologists who can say their career spans 64 years. UC Davis...
Nematologist Howard Ferris traveled to Culiacan. Mexico in December 2015 to present a short course on nematode ecology
Nematologist Howard Ferris (foreground) giving a short course on nematode ecology and soil health at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica in 2015.
This is the Nemaplex website that nematologist Howard Ferris launched and maintains. (Screen shot)
'Nearly Wild' and 'In the Pink'
Talk about flower power. When you walk through the UC Davis Bee Haven, a half-acre...
A pink floribunda rose cultivar, "Nearly Wild," draws honey bees and native bees in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A native bee seeks to join two honey bees in gathering nectar and pollen from a floribunda rose cultivar, "Nearly Wild," in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of a honey bee foraging on a "Nearly Wild" rose cultivar in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on "Nearly Wild" looks at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thinking of Noted Cotton Entomologist Thomas Frances Leigh
This time of year we're thinking of noted cotton entomologist Thomas Frances Leigh (1923-1993)...
A display of harvested cotton balls. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
