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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

NEWS REPORTER Dea Diamont (right) of KCRA TV, Channel 3, Sacramento interviews Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (center) of UC Davis Department of Entomology at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. At left is KCRA news photographer Brian Fong. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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It Happens

August 26th, 2010

It may not be talked about in polite society. And most folks dont know what it is.

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SELF-DESCRIBED rock artist Donna Billick with her sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Undergraduate degree in genetics? Check. Masters degree in fine arts? Check. Scientist and artist? Check. Such is the case with scientist-artist Donna Billick, who created the Miss Bee Haven six-foot bee sculpture in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the University of California, Davis.

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NATIVE BEE, a Svastra obliqua expurgata, forages on top of a Mexican hat flower at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. The bee is commonly known as "the sunflower bee." The flower is sometimes called a "prairie coneflower." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Feel Like Dancing?

August 24th, 2010

Collecting pollen and nectar is serious business. But when a native wild bee such as the Svastra obliqua expurgata, also called "the sunflower bee," forages on a Mexican hat flower, it adds a little gaiety to the scene.

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Chasing Carder Bees

August 23rd, 2010

When this insect flashes by you in your garden, at first glance you think: "Yellow jacket? Paper wasp? What's that?" Then it lands and you realize it's neither. It's a bee.

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About Those Pickled Peppers

August 20th, 2010

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

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