If you missed it, you should to listen to what longtime butterfly researcher Art Shapiro, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, says about California's monarch butterfly population.

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Anurag Agrawal and his friend, a monarch butterfly. (Jason Koski, Cornell University Photography)

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About Those Milkweeds and Their Toxicity...

November 5th, 2015

Cornell University evolutionary ecologist Anurag Agrawal, who received his doctorate in population biology at the University of California, Davis in 1999 under the tutelage of major professor Richard Rick Karban, is making the news with his groundbreaking research on milkweed toxicity.

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Buzzing with Excitement!

November 4th, 2015

That's a honey of a theme! When the 141st annual Dixon May Fair opens May 5-8, 2016 at 655 S 1st St.,Dixon, the grounds will be buzzing, in keeping with the theme, "Buzzing with Excitement." The fair is putting the "buzz" in bees and the bees in "buzz.

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Norm Gary, UC Davis emeritus professor of entomology, with Barbara Allen-Diaz, then vice president of the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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All the Buzz: The Hive and the Honey Bee

November 3rd, 2015

It's out. The newly published edition of The Hive and the Honey Bee edited by American Bee Journal editor Joe Graham, is now a reality. This is the bible of the beekeeping world, and rightfully so.

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UC Davis entomology student Laurie Casebier as a cerambycidae beetle (long-horned beetle). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Wouldn't You Like to Be a Long-Horned Beetle?

November 2nd, 2015

You just can't beat those Halloween costumes at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's annual membership party. By now, you've probably seen the peacock jumping spider costume created and worn by UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer.

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