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  Dad's Bees

  If you come from a beekeeping family, you remember Dad's Bees. My father, like many fathers before him, kept bees. I marveled at the hives, the smoker, the hive tool, the veil, but most of all the bees that buzzed out of...
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  Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

  The metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon subtilior, need not worry about being pinched on St. Patrick's Day. It wears iridescent green all year around. The pollinator I photographed several years...
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  CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

  Carla-Cristina “CC” Edwards is going to be more busy than the "skeeters" she studies. CC, a second-year doctoral student in the lab of UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, is the newly...
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  Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

  UC Davis arachnologist James "Jim" Starrett answered scores of questions at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Poisonous vs. Venomous." They included: What is the difference...