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Focus on a tiny monarch egg
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This image of a tiny monarch egg won a silver award in a photo competition hosted by the international Association for Communication Excellence. Kathy Keatley Garvey/Courtesy photo
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A UC Davis communications specialist who creates habitat for monarch butterflies in her family’s pollinator garden, won a silver award or second-place honors, in a photography competition hosted by the international Association for Communication Excellence (ACE). ACE recently announced the award at its virtual conference.
Kathy Keatley Garvey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology captured the image of a monarch egg with a Canon MPE-65mm lens.
Leon Godwyn/UC-Davis Early-blooming species lengthen the amount of time herbivores have in a given year to eat their leaves. scientist says.
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Many plant species are leafing out and flowering earlier in response to rising temperatures, and those that are not are “declining at alarming rates in some circumstances,” says urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in newly published research in the journal
Global Change Biology.
“However, the plants that are keeping up with climate change might also experience costs to earlier leaf-out,” said Meineke, lead author of the first-of-its-kind study,
Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC-Davis
Wearing Bohart hoodies are Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with husband and forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey. Both are on the faculty of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. The UC s Bohart Museum of Entomology studies biodiversity research, teaches the public about insects.
The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is closed but the gift shop isn t.
The museum, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, Crocker Lane, is gearing up for the holiday season with online sales from the gift shop, which is stocked with insect-themed t-shirts, hoodies, jewelry, posters, books, insect-collecting equipment and other items. (See gift shop inventory)