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Honeybees do more than sting you. Without them, you wouldn’t get to eat your favorite fruits, nuts and ice cream flavors. And due to a recent mysterious decline in honeybee colonies, you may actually be losing more than that.

The male Japanese beetle doesn’t look for a pretty face when trying to choose a mate. Instead, the invasive pest sniffs for a female’s sex pheromone, a chemical signal which she naturally releases, which the male detects with an enzyme in its antennae, said UC Davis entomology professor and chemical ecologist Walter Leal.

TUESDAY Tcheka concert 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Quad SummerMusic 2008, a free concert series put on by the Mondavi Center, will kick off Tcheka’s blend of world music and jazz. Go enjoy this free event!

Editor’s note: Donald Dudley is a graduate of the UC Davis School of Law and has worked at Student Judicial Affairs for over a decade. The Aggie sat down with him to find out the real deal about SJA.

Don’t be surprised – little munchkins dressed in green are taking over the UC Davis campus, at least for the summer. At the Activities and Recreation Center, kids in face paint are as prominent as weightlifters pumping iron.

In 2007, only 18.1 percent of students in the United States who received a bachelor’s degree in engineering were female. Surprised by the disproportionate number of males and females? Don’t be.

With fuel and food prices on the rise, University of California cooperative extension adviser and historian Rose Hayden-Smith recommends a home-grown solution – the Victory Garden. Although the name may evoke a sense of World War II-era nostalgia, Hayden-Smith believes the Victory Garden needs to make a comeback but in a different context.

WEDNESDAY Arboretumtour:walk withWarren Noon to1p.m. Arboretum Gazebo onGarrod Drive ArboretumSuperintendent Warren Robertswill offer a tour of the arboretum and offer information about the plant collections.

The neon lights flickering the words SUSHI BUFFET stopped mein my tracks. I passed it by on a hazy night of bar-hopping. Could this be? Could Davis really have another all-you-can-eat sushi joint? The next morning, to make sure that I hadn’t imagined it in the midst of a little dancing and a lot of drinking, I did some research on Google to find that the restaurant really does exist!

f you have terrible eating habits like me, coming up with excuses to eat junk is an all-too-easy task. Some justifications I always fall back on include class, work, certain television shows, extreme weather conditions… Providing me with one less place to nourish my unhealthy lifestyle is Farmer’s Kitchen Café. Situated at 624 Fourth St., it turned out that I’ve passed this restaurant many times without ever having gone inside, only referring to it as “the place with the plastic floral tablecloths.”

Editor’snote:For this edition of10questions,The Aggie interviewedDavisCity Councilmember Don Saylor.Councilmember Saylor was recently elected to his second term on the council and was named Mayor Pro Tempore on Tuesday.Look for him as he holds his office hours next weekonJuly8,from11a.m.to12:30p.m.at the tables by the Memorial Union patio.

Why not join the city ofDavis in celebrating the independence of our nation with pancakes,parades and parachutes? Davis is offering a plethora of activities that everyone from children to college students can enjoy.