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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

Linnaean Games Team (Bug Bowl) member Emily Bick received a congratulatory hug after the UC team won the national championship in 2018. (ESA Photo)

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Emily Bick: She Does UC Davis And Entomology Proud

November 27th, 2019

Emily Bick does UC Davis proud, not to mention the field of entomology.

A squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Thank the Squash Bee on Thanksgiving

November 26th, 2019

If you're having pumpkin pie or butternut squash this Thanksgiving, thank the squash bee. Squash bees are specialists (not generalists) that pollinate only the cucurbits or squash family, Cucurbitaceae, which includes pumpkins, squash, gourds, cucumbers and zucchini.

A nest of Bombus vosnesenkii in May 2015 at the Loma Vista Farm, Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Ever Seen a Bumble Bee Nest?

November 25th, 2019

Ever seen a bumble bee nest? We remember when insect enthusiast Rita LeRoy of the Loma Vista Farm, part of the Vallejo City Unified School District, found the nest of the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenkii, in May of 2015.

The wax-working glands of a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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UC Davis Wax-Working Class Sold Out, But Another One Planned Next Spring

November 22nd, 2019

If you missed enrolling in the Wax Working, Honey and Hive Products, a first-of-its-kind class offered Saturday, Dec. 7 by the Elina Nio lab at the University of California, Davis, you're in luck--but not until spring. The Dec. 7th class is sold out.

Bruce Hammock, founder and CEO of EicOsis and Cindy McReynolds, senior program manager, with the trophy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bruce Hammock, EicOsis and Innovator of Year Award

November 21st, 2019

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Society, is known for his expertise in chemistry, toxicology, biochemistry and entomology.