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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HONEY BEE foraging on pomegranate blossom. Without bees, there would be no pomegranates. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bee-ing Thankful

November 25th, 2010
President Obama just pardoned a couple of turkeys--Apple and Cider. They won't make it to the White House Thanksgiving dinner today. But what he could have done--when he was pardoning the turkeys--was to praise the honey bees.
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SPOTLIGHTING bees, the North American Bee Calendar features 12 species of bees. Some are pictured here. Most of the photos are by noted insect photographer Rollin Coville. (The honey bee is the work of Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Mark Your Calendar

November 24th, 2010
Mark your calendar. If you're a bee aficionada and haven't ordered your educational North American Bee Calendar, you have until Tuesday, Nov. 30 to place your order. It's for a good cause.
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ROSE GARDEN--The All-America Rose Selections (AARS) Test Garden on Hopkins Road, UC Davis, features 30 new rose varieties--and insects have their pick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Insects Find This Garden Rosy

November 23rd, 2010
It's the kind of rose garden that Joe South would write about. The Grammy-award winning songwriter-guitarist who wrote "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" (popularized by country singer Lynn Anderson), has probably never seen this rose garden, though.
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HONEY BEE foraging at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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So Much Has Happened...

November 22nd, 2010
It's a romantic getaway. Say "San Ysidro Ranch" and someone will tell you that John F. Kennedy and his bride, Jackie, honeymooned there in September 1953. So much has happened since then. JFK went on to win the presidency in 1961 and tragically, 47 years ago today--Nov.
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ROCK ARTIST Donna Billick, with her sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. Billick will be showing some of her work at the Pence Art Gallery, Davis, Nov. 23-Dec. 23. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sticky Business: Art of the Honey Bee

November 19th, 2010
Honey is sticky. Bees are in a sticky situation. Now enter "Sticky Business: Art of the Honey Bee." It's an art show about honey bees that will run from Tuesday, Nov. 23 from Thursday, Dec. 23 in the Pence Art Gallery, 212 D St., Davis.
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