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  Santa and the Monarch

  Santa Claus and the monarch butterfly share a commonality. Both are icons, easily recognizable. One may become extinct. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Dec. 10 its plans to add the monarch butterfly to its...
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  2024: Revisiting 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'

  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 no insects...
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  Insect 'Infomercials' You Won't Want to MIss

  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 students in a UC Davis...
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  Suds for a Bug, or a Pitcher of Beer for a Butterfly

  Suds for a bug? A bug for some suds? The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, gets underway Jan. 1. The...