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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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EYESPOTS on the wings of a buckeye butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Eyes Have It

October 21st, 2010
The eyespots--they're almost hypnotic. And that's what makes the buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) so easily recognizable--the bold pattern of eyespots on the wings, bold enough to startle and scare away prey. This buckeye (below) fluttered along the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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AN ITALIAN BEE (left) and a New World Carniolan bee forage on a purple coneflower at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Coneflower Duo

October 20th, 2010
The purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a favorite among the autumn plants blooming in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden planted last fall next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis.
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PRAYING MANTIS clutches a vespid wasp and prepares to eat it while a curious ant heads toward the feast. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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On a Wing and a Prayer

October 19th, 2010
It was not a good day to "stop and smell the roses." A vespid wasp apparently lingered too long on a rose--perhaps dropping by for a sip of nectar or seeking unsuspecting prey. What it found was another predator, a praying mantis looking for breakfast.
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SUSAN COBEY, noted bee breeder-geneticist, is dividing her time between the University of California, Davis, and Washington State University. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Best of Both Springs

October 18th, 2010
Some folks have the best of both worlds. Noted bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey not only has the best of both worlds, but the best of both springs. Cobey, affiliated with the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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THIS PIECE, "Disappearing Mission Blue," by visual artist Carol Newborg of the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the ecoart works displayed this weekend in the Marin Civic Center Auditorium and Exhibit Hall, San Rafael. Entrance to the show, which continues through Sunday, is free.
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Vanishing Pollinators

October 15th, 2010
If you're looking for vanishing pollinators this weekend, head over to the Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, and see the ecoart exhibit produced by WEAD, the Women Environmental Artists Directory. The occasion is the 2010 Bioneers Conference, focusing on food and farrming.
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