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UC Blogs

UC Davis Apiculturist: Apivectoring Defined

Do you know what apivectoring is? Bee scientist Elina Lastro Niño, associate professor of Cooperative Extension, Apiculture, and a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) faculty, defines...
U.S. Honey Bee Losses Highest Since 2010-11

The American Bee Journal (ABJ) and Bee Culture just released the preliminary results of the annual U.S. Beekeeping Survey and the news is not good. "U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated 55.1 percent of their...
A Moth Named for Trump, Snopes, and the Bohart Museum of Entomology

It's not every day that Snopes "gets involved" in setting the record straight regarding a moth linked to an entomology department--specifically the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. The back story: On...
Food Waste Project: Emma Vazquez on the Mike!

Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics...
Feeding grazing cattle seaweed cuts methane emissions by almost 40%

Findings offer solution for more climate-friendly cattle farming Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef...