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  It's Friday Fly Day!

  It's Friday Fly Day and what an appropriate day to honor a syrphid fly. This syrphid, caught in flight, was seeking nectar from a Gaura, a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, native to North...
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  Entomologist Jeff Smith: The Master Builder of Insect Specimen Drawers

  When you slide open the butterfly and moth drawers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, the color, size and shape of the specimens fascinate you. And then you notice how they are stored--in intricate wooden...
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  Franco: Deciphering Soil Macrobiome and Ecosystem Responses to Global Change

  It promises to be an outstanding seminar. André Custodio Franco, assistant professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, will speak on "Deciphering the Soil Macrobiome: Belowground Communities Driving Ecosystem...
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  UC ANR Forestry Team Welcomes Ali Azadfar, new Biomass and Forest Products Advisor

   This fall, UC ANR's forestry team welcomed new Biomass and Forest Products Advisor Ali Azadfar to the Shasta, Siskiyou, and Trinity communities. Azadfar to comes to UC ANR's Siskiyou office with research and teaching...