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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025: In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega

March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science

March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way

March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, chief scientific officer and chairman of the board of EicOsis Human Health LLC. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Good News All Around

February 23rd, 2023

Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumna and researcher Cindy McReynolds and UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology Bruce Hammock.

Entomologist Grace Horne, shown in field work, is a doctoral student in the lab of UC Davis urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke.

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Undergrad Thesis Scores the Cover of Environmental Entomology

February 22nd, 2023

It's not every day that an undergraduate thesis makes the cover story of a professional journal. But that's the case with UC Davis doctoral student Grace Horne.

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

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Kyle Lewald of Joanna Chiu Lab: Targeting the South American Tomato Leafminer

February 21st, 2023

If you love tomatoes, you hate any and all pests that attack them. That would include the larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer. In its adult stage, it's a moth in the family Gelechilidae. In its larval stage, it's a major agricultural pest.

Got an ant question? From left are members of the Phil Ward ant lab at UC Davis: doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zachary Griebenow, and third-year doctoral student Ziv Lieberman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: A Great Time to Talk Ants

February 20th, 2023

How did you spend your Presidents' Day weekend? Well, if you were high school student Ziya Akmal, he journeyed--by car--nearly 400 miles from his home in Los Angeles to attend the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18 on the University of California, Davis, campus.

Nematologist Shahid Siddique explains some of the display items during a previous UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Don't Miss the Nematodes at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

February 17th, 2023

Don't miss the nematodes at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 18. The daylong event, known as a "Super Science Day"--and free and family friendly--will showcase 11 museums or collections. It's an opportunity to ask questions and chat with the scientists.