Nevada

Everywhere you turn these days, the term citizen science is in use. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) dedicates a page of its website to the topic.

In conjunction with the USDA Range Management group out of Oregon and many Weed Scientists throughout the western US, a two day field school will focus on improving the management and threat of invasive plants, and especially cheatgrass and medusahead.

Sometimes you get lucky. While watching floral visitors foraging last week in our rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), we noticed a tiny black bee, something we'd never seen before.

They know their insects. They know what a "land lobster" is. They know diseases caused by trypanosomes. They can name the six orders of arthropods represented in the circus troupe from the movie, "A Bug's Life.

Collaboration between Partners May Be an Effective Way to Fund Wildland Weed Control Projects Many funding sources for weed eradication have been reduced or completely eliminated.

Pop goes the Pieris. So wrote professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology from his office in Storer Hall. Yes, he won his own contest again.

The times, they change. Standard textbook knowledge, that can change, too. It did today.

When beekepers from all over the Western states converge on the Western Apicultural Society (WAS) meeting in Hawaii next week, they won't be there to bask in the sun.

It's not just future entomologists who study insects. So do future physicians, veterinarians, chemists, ecologists and scores of others.

Quick! What's the answer to this question? "I am a blood feeder; I have no hair but have a comb.