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The (Zika) virus is here, and so is the mosquito. The question is whether there will be enough of both to set off an epidemic. That's what UC San Francisco medical student Joshua Lang wrote in his piece, With Summer Coming, Can the Zika Virus Be Contained?, published April 14 in The New Yorker.

What's a picnic without bugs? Bugs may be uninvited guests at your family picnic, but at the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day, set Saturday, April 16, bugs are not only invited, but more than welcome. And so are you, your family and friends.

Three San Joaquin Valley CASI farmers, - Jesse Sanchez of Sano Farms in Firebaugh, Tom Willey of T & D Willey Farms in Madera and Michael Crowell of Bar-Vee Dairy in Turlock, - graciously hosted Gisele Herren, a soil biology PhD researcher from Ghent University in Belgium at their farms on Tuesday,...

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/confluence/ Water woes are probably not going to go away, so readup on how to best manage water at this new blog.

If you want to learn more about native bees, mark your calendar for Saturday, April 23. That's when the Davis Science Collective, a group of STEM graduate students at UC Davis who like to get together and do science outreach in their spare time, will host an event from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Mary L.

"A" is for almonds and "Z" is for Zamora. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 15 for a two-hour workshop, "Almond Pollination and Orchard Pollinator Planters" in Zamora, Yolo County. It's free and open to the public.

So you want to learn more about almond pollination, integrated crop pollination, blue orchard bees, navel orangeworms, wildflower plantings and solarization for wildflpwer planting success. You're in luck.

We have a winner! And he wasn't even looking for it. A UC Davis graduate student won the Beer for a Butterfly contest by collecting the first cabbage white butterfly of the year Saturday morning, Jan. 16 outside his home in West Davis.

What's the status of the "Beer for a Butterfly" Contest? Do we have a winner? Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news: Art Shapiro found and collected a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) on Jan.

No matter how many we see or how often we see them, we can't get enough of the Gulf Frits. That would be the Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae), a brightly colored orangish-reddish butterfly with silver-spangled underwings.