The people who produce our food need support – especially in the areas of mental and physical well-being – to recover from increasingly widespread wildfire, scientists have found. The federal Farm ...

How do entomologists apply research in a Cooperative Extension program? You'll want to hear UC Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) entomology advisor Dylan Beal, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources ...

My mother adored pepper—black, red, green, hot, sweet, any kind. She used so much cracked pepper in our meals that most of them looked as if they were dug out of a gravel pit. I used to sulkily scrape ...

Hearing a queen bee piping is music to her ears. So is the shimmering sound of the harp. Meet Samantha Murray, the newly selected garden coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven, a pollinator and ...

A wide variety of citrus fruits brighten winter gardens and winter menus this month. Control cool-season weeds before they mature and go to seed. Plants planted last spring and fall may need water if ...

Just because it is wintertime doesn't mean that bees, which are important pollinators for our flowers, fruits and vegetables, don't need food. Plants and shrubs can provide pollen, nectar, or both to ...

The annual UC Davis Bio Boot Camps not only connect youths with nature, but with each other. Meet Cole Cramer, and Connor Hsu, both 15, and both students at La Canada High School, La Cañada Flintridge ...

Santa Claus and the monarch butterfly share a commonality. Both are icons, easily recognizable. One may become extinct. The U ...

Back in 2010, UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and yours truly, department communications specialist, wondered why ...

If you have some free time during the holidays--free time, what's that?--and you're interested in insects, you'll want to watch a series of UC Davis insect "infomercials." As a class assignment, 58 ...