<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div>A huge THANK YOU to all of you who made the 2025 Riverside Insect Fair a huge success today! It is clear that all the interactions today at our research booths, the stage, touch-a-bug, the CNAS booth, EGSA and BEUSA, and ENTM 123 (science communication class) made the communities around us (as far away as Palm Springs and beyond!) appreciate the importance of insects and the importance of research on insects so much more. It's been exhausting, and yes, it rained on us (a first for Riverside Insect Fair....), but it's so worth all of our efforts! The city expected around 15,000 visitors this year, and thought that we might have attracted more than that! We'll be talking with the City of Riverside on how to make this event thrive in the future.</div><div>Best wishes, and thanks again, we can only do this as an (admittedly totally awesome) Entomology Department at UCR, Christiane</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">C</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">hristiane Weirauch</font></font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Professor of Entomology</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Department of Entomology</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">University of California, Riverside</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Ph: 951-827-5707</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Email: c</span><a href="mailto:Christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">hristiane.weirauch@ucr.edu</a><br><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/christiane.weirauch" target="_blank">https://profiles.ucr.edu/christiane.weirauch</a> </font><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Center for Integrative Biological Collections </span><a href="http://cibc.ucr.edu/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">http://cibc.ucr.edu/</a><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Editor, </span><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-3113" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">Systematic Entomology</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> <br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">President, International Heteropterists' Society (2022-2026)</span><br></div></div></div>