UC Riverside’s new entomology garden is an outdoor classroom

By Staff Report | The Press-Enterprise |

THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - UC Riverside entomology students have a new place to do their fieldwork — next door to the campus entomology museum.

The Entomology Teaching Garden, which is open to the public, will serve as an “outdoor classroom and living laboratory for faculty and students,” a UCR news release states.

The plant-filled garden is designed to attract native insects and pollinators, the release states.

“We will have a plant blooming in the garden no matter the time of year,” Erin Wilson Rankin, a professor of entomology who manages the garden, said in the release.

Many of its native plant species “attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees.”

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