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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

Members of the Walter Leal lab congratulate Zain Syed on his award. From left are Walter Leal, professor of entomology; Zhao Liu, graduate student; Zain Syed; Julien Pelletier, postdoctoral scholar; and Wei Xu, ag chemistry graduate student. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Dynamo, a Maverick and an Inspiration

June 9th, 2009

The competition was fierce. We're talking 800 postdoctoral scholars on the UC Davis campus, 12 finalists and two winners.

HONEY BEE GENETICIST Robert Page is a newly elected member of the oldest scientific academy of science, the Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, he's now a professor and administrator at Arizona State University.

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A 'Page' of History

June 8th, 2009

Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. is in good company. Good company, indeed. Think scientists Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. Page, who received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1980 and then became a noted geneticist at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

A FLY on a cactus flower: an almost ethereal image. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Fly by Day

June 5th, 2009

UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey loves flies. So, every chance I get, I shoot an image for him. Many of the images wind up in his classroom PowerPoint presentations. "Keep 'em coming," he says. So, I shoot flies. Yes, indeed. I shoot flies. No, I am not a candidate for a 12-step program.

WORKER BEES keep the hive humming. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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The Calamity of CCD

June 4th, 2009

Colony collapse disorder (CCD), the mysterious phenomonen characterized by honey bees abandoning their hives, is still with is, and the cause is still mysterious.

CAUGHT IN FLIGHT, a male carpenter bee heads for the lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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To Catch a Carpenter Bee

June 3rd, 2009

To catch a carpenter bee... The carpenter bees (Xylocopa tabaniformis) that nectar the sage, lavender, catmint and coral bells in our bee friendly garden move fast. How fast? As fast as a buzz. They buzz into a blur and then back into a buzz. Oh, but there are ways to capture their images.