If you follow “Gwentomologist” on Instagram, you'll see fascinating images, videos and data on scores of insects, including bees, butterflies and beetles, and such curious critters as wasp-mimicking beetles (genus Clytus) and “burying beetles” or Nicrophorus beetles (genus Nicrophorus).
Gwendolyn “Gwen” Erdosh is a UC Davis entomology major and undergraduate researcher with more than 22,000 followers on Instagram, where she shares her fascination, passion and growing scientific knowledge of entomology with the intensity of a moth heading for light.
Read more about her on the Entomology and Nematology website.
— Kathy Keatley Garvey
Chief Trauernicht hosts ’Fireside Chat‘
Happy New Year Twitterverse!!! 🥂 Hop over to my Instagram (FireChiefT) to see the first installment of “Friday Fireside Chats” with Fire Chief T - I answer questions about @UCDavisFire, the fire service, & other random questions each week. Here’s to a better 2022! #ucdavis 🔥 pic.twitter.com/3VGoGrCrRz
— Nathan Trauernicht (@FireChiefT) January 1, 2022
What was Fire Chief Nate Trauernicht’s most memorable call? And what advice does he have for an aspiring firefighter? Hear the answers to those questions and more in his first Fireside Chat on Instagram.
Don’t come to the ER just for a COVID test
"Given the overwhelming number of people coming to the Emergency Dept., we're encouraging people not to come to the Emergency Dept. if they have mild symptoms & just want to get a COVID test because we're trying to take care of those who are most sick.” -@NickSawyerMD, @UCDavisEM
— UC Davis Health (@UCDavisHealth) January 11, 2022
Compost bins spread across campus
Green compost bins are being added to more buildings around campus — here’s what can go in them and an overview of their benefits.
Completed Walker Hall gets Scully sketch
Same view (from a bit further back) nearly four years ago pic.twitter.com/xPUSsX9Ojw
— Pete Scully (@petescully) January 10, 2022
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Cody Kitaura is a News and Media Relations Specialist in the Office of Strategic Communications, and can be reached by email or at 530-752-1932.