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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025: In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega

March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science

March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way

March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs

The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is one of the oldest plants to be farmed. This is a black-eyed pea, a cowpea cultivar. (Wikipedia photo)

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Adam Steinbrenner: How Plants Detect When Insects Are Eating Them

February 21st, 2022

Plants "know" when insects are eating them and take defensive measures.

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First in a series of photos taken in 2016: Two monarchs meet in a Tithonia patch in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Are You Ready for the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge?

February 18th, 2022

Monarch Butterfly Alert! It's early spring and Western monarchs are heading inland from their overwintering sites along the California coast.

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All aboard the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum bus! This art is the work of Ivana Li, UC Davis biology laboratory manager.

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When a Mouse and an Eagle Boarded the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day Bus

February 17th, 2022

UC Davis is known for its London-style double-decker buses.

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This is a screen shot of a YouTube video, the work of Christine Casey, academic program management officer for the UC Davis Bee Haven.

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UC Davis Project Aims to Help Children Learn About Bees

February 16th, 2022

The excited looks on the children's faces as they enter the bee garden. The wonder of it all as they touch a huge sculpture of a worker bee that anchors the garden. The information they glean, process and retain as they learn about the importance of bees.

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A pollen-packing honey bee heads a patch of daffodils on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Ever Seen a Honey Bee Foraging on a Daffodil?

February 15th, 2022

Ever seen a honey bee foraging on a daffodil? In the early spring, blooms are few and far between. Daffodils are not usually considered "bee plants." But if nothing else is blooming, bees will head over to the daffodils. On a Feb.

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