Bug Squad

 If you look like a yellowjacket but you’re really a fly, that doesn’t mean a predator can’t grab you and eat you.Take the case of a crab spider lying in wait on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. Our very alert spider knows exactly where to practice its ambushing…

 When the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) interacts with children at various events, they hope to make a difference.At the Vacaville Museum Guild's annual Children's Party. held recently in the Vacaville Museum on Buck Avenue, Vacaville, they did just that.We just received a…

 If you've been wondering when the 15th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day will take place, wonder no more!The committee has voted. The popular event, a "Super Science Day" that's free and family friendly,  is set for Saturday, Feb. 21, so mark your calendars.It's about a day of discovery…

 Too good to be true!What did I deserve to see--and photograph--a second monarch in our Vacaville pollinator garden this year? The first arrived July 15. The second, Aug. 21. Both were females laying eggs.But there she was. At 10 a.m. today, this majestic female fluttered in, heading straight for the…

 Congratulations to our UC Davis nematologists who drew admiration and applause at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held in Victoria, British Columbia.Doctoral candidate Alison Blundell of the laboratory of associate professor Shahid Siddique, UC Davis…