Posts Tagged: Be a scientist
An Interview with a Budding Scientist
Teach 'em young, they say. Encourage them to learn about insects, spiders and other critters at a...
Brandon DeGroot,6, examines the bug he just collected outside McCormack Hall, Solano County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brandon DeGroot monitors how a bug crawls. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brandon DeGroot gets a closer look at his bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When you first meet 6-year-old Brandon DeGroot, he'll tell you "I love spiders and snakes" and he'll flash a big smile. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who Wants a Wasp Waist?
"Around 250 million years ago, at the start of the Triassic period, a species of insect...
The mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron caementarium, sporting its "wasp waist." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ecologist from Argentina to Give UC Davis Virtual Seminar on Arthropods and Green Roofs
A green roof, commonly described as "living roof" or "a vegetative or eco-roof," is an increasingly...
Ecologist and research scientist Maria Silvina Fenoglio (shown here on a green roof) will present a virtual seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, on "Do Green Roofs Benefit Urban Arthropod Communities? Evidence from a South American City," at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 6.
New UCCE Field Crops Agronomy and Weed Management Advisor in Northern SJV
Hi, my name is José Luiz Dias and I have recently joined the University of California...
Dias named UCCE agronomy and weed management advisor
José Luiz Carvalho de Souza Dias joined UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) on Nov. 2, 2020, as...