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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

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Lasering in on the UC Davis LASER Event on April 14

April 1st, 2016

She researches fruit flies but she'll be discussing "The Concealed Beauty of Plant Architecture.

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Going Native with the Native Bees

March 31st, 2016

If you want to learn more about native bees, mark your calendar for Saturday, April 23. That's when the Davis Science Collective, a group of STEM graduate students at UC Davis who like to get together and do science outreach in their spare time, will host an event from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Mary L.

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Honey, You Ought to Attend This!

March 30th, 2016

If you've ever wanted to taste exotic honeys (of course, you have!) and if you've ever wondered why native bees don't make honey (you have, haven't you?), then you're in luck.

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Those Glorious Pipevine Swallowtails

March 29th, 2016

Today was a glorious day in the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden in the UC Davis Arboretum. Absolutely glorious. The scent of the Korean lilac, Syringa patula, drew several pipevine swallowtails (Battus philenor), their iridescent blue hind wings gleaming in the late morning sun.

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Gulf Fritillaries Are Back!

March 28th, 2016

Okay, where are they? Shouldn't they be emerging soon? They're in Davis and Suisun. Why not Vacaville? We've been waiting--not so patiently after this long winter--for the reappearance of the showy Gulf Fritillary butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) on our passionflower vine (Passiflora).