Posts Tagged: Rick Karban

Feeding Frenzy on Bodega Head

If you're planning to hike the hills around Bodega Head in Sonoma County, watch out for the bears. The woolly bear caterpillars, that is. Last...

Close-up of woolly bear caterpillar on yellow lupine on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of woolly bear caterpillar on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Woolly bear caterpillar on wild radish on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Woolly bear caterpillar on wild radish on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defenses

It will be like "old-home week" when Anurag Agrawal returns to the University of California, Davis, tomorrow (Jan. 18) to deliver a seminar on...

Anurag Agrawal, professor of evolution and ecology at Cornell, returns to the UC Davis campus Jan. 18 to give a seminar.

Anurag Agrawal, professor of evolution and ecology at Cornell, returns to the UC Davis campus Jan. 18 to give a seminar.

A Woolly Bear of a Caterpillar

If you enjoy climbing the cliffs of Bodega Head on the Sonoma coast, keep your eyes out for bears--woolly bear caterpillars, that is. The so-called...

A woolly bear caterpillar munching on foliage at the Bodega Head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A woolly bear caterpillar munching on foliage at the Bodega Head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A woolly bear caterpillar munching on fiddleneck. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A woolly bear caterpillar munching on fiddleneck. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Prized Award

A nice prize! Evolutionary ecologist Anurag Agrawal (right), who received his doctorate in population biology from the University of California,...

Monarch Butterfly

RESEARCH PROJECTS in the Anurag Agrawal lab at Cornell include the biology of the monarch butterfly. This butterfly is drenched from a rainstorm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Why Some and Not Others

When you visit the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove in the UC Davis Arboretum, you'll see one of the most diverse mature oak collections in the United...

Ian Pearse

UC DAVIS RESEARCHER Ian Pearse in front of the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove, on Garrod Drive, UC Davis Arboretum. Pearse received a fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his oak tree research. Long interested in plant biochemistry, he joined the UC Davis graduate program in entomology in 2006, after studying a year in Germany with the Max Planck Society for Chemical Ecology. He received his bachelor of science degree in plant biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2004.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Insect Damage

INSECT DAMAGE to oak leaves in the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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