Posts Tagged: summer

Maggot Art: Blending Art with Science

If you or your favorite child, grandchild or neighbor created Maggot Art at the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 23, chances are...

UC Davis alumnus Angie Velazquez of Los Angeles assists her son, Hudson Carr, 4, in his first Maggot Art project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis alumnus Angie Velazquez of Los Angeles assists her son, Hudson Carr, 4, in his first Maggot Art project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hudson Carr, 4, gets some helpful tips from his mother, UC Davis alumnus Angie Velazquez of Los Angeles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hudson Carr, 4, gets some helpful tips from his mother, UC Davis alumnus Angie Velazquez of Los Angeles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wells of non-toxic, water-based paint await the Maggot Art artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wells of non-toxic, water-based paint await the Maggot Art artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis undergraduate student Summer Calvache (left) and graduate student Elizabeth Slagboon assist the young artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis undergraduate student Summer Calvache (left) and graduate student Elizabeth Slagboon assist the young artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Maggot Art drying on a bulletin board. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Maggot Art drying on a bulletin board. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Youths Experience the Joy of Insects

Do you remember when insects first fascinated you or when you developed a love of insects? Odds are that the children who attend the SaveNature.Org...

Future entomologists? A group of students in a Bay Area three-week insect class, taught by SaveNature.Org, poses for a photo.

Future entomologists? A group of students in a Bay Area three-week insect class, taught by SaveNature.Org, poses for a photo.

Getting up close and personal with a stick insect, also known as a walking stick.

Getting up close and personal with a stick insect, also known as a walking stick.

Bohart Museum of Entomology: One Busy Place!

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is one busy place--lots of activities planned this summer and there's a newly...

Entomologist Norm Smith (center) answers questions about moths at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Norm Smith (center) answers questions about moths at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A display of moth specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2018 Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A display of moth specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2018 Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jason Bond, professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics, examines a scarab beetle at the blacklighting display set up during the 2018 Moth Night. At left is "Moth Man" and Bohart associate John De Benedictus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jason Bond, professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics, examines a scarab beetle at the blacklighting display set up during the 2018 Moth Night. At left is "Moth Man" and Bohart associate John De Benedictus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This Bio Boot Camp Is Just for Teens

Teenagers who dig bugs and wildlife biology will love this! The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology is again sponsoring two summer Bio Boot Camps:...

The 2011 UC Davis Bio Boot Camp featured a tour of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road. Here the campers crowd around beekeeper Elizabeth Frost as she opens the hive. Frost is now the education officer for honey bees at the Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The 2011 UC Davis Bio Boot Camp featured a tour of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road. Here the campers crowd around beekeeper Elizabeth Frost as she opens the hive. Frost is now the education officer for honey bees at the Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Berkeley's Sagehen Field Station, near Truckee, is a favorite of scientists. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosted a faculty/graduate student retreat there Friday, Oct. 14 through Sunday, Oct. 16. Here Professor Phil Ward (far left) searches for ants. (Photo by Sandy Olkowski)

UC Berkeley's Sagehen Field Station, near Truckee, is a favorite of scientists. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosted a faculty/graduate student retreat there Friday, Oct. 14 through Sunday, Oct. 16. Here Professor Phil Ward (far left) searches for ants. (Photo by Sandy Olkowski)

Summer Reflection

Those of us of a certain, vague age know--really know--time speeds up as we mature.  Another birthday, already!?  Christmas shopping, already!?  I just put my fall/Halloween decorations away, and it is time to plan my family Easter dinner, dye eggs, and place those cute bunnies in appropriate places throughout the garden, already!?

So we arrive home after a week of summer RV camping and the garden is overflowing with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and chard; but what is in my mailbox?  Seed catalogs telling me it is time to start my fall/winter garden.  Already!?

My bell peppers are just coming in, but I am being told it is time to plant broccoli.  A ton of chard is available in my garden, but I am being told to get those kale seeds in the ground, not to mention twelve varieties of lettuce.  Apparently, I need to get beets in the ground where my egg plant is just getting ready to hatch.

When does a veggie gardener rest?  When can I just take a break from planting, picking, watering, mulching, composting, planning, pruning?

At the beginning of every spring, looking forward I say, "no winter garden this year. Let's take a break".  Every fall, still looking forward, I say, "no summer garden this year.  Let's take a break".  My husband  just looks at me, smiles, and says, "Give me a break."

So which garlic should I plant this winter?

 

Raised bed riches. (photos by Cheryl Potts)

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