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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

Scott McArt of Cornell will speak on "Pesticide Risk to Pollinators: What We Know and What We Need to Know Better" at the Wednesday, May 4 virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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Scott McArt: The Risk of Pesticides to Pollinators

May 2nd, 2022

"The use of synthetic chemical pesticides is central to current agricultural practices worldwide.

Kyle Elshoff of the UC Davis Entomology Club retrieves a winning roach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Run, Roaches, Run!

April 29th, 2022

Folks will do just about anything to remove cockroaches from their homes, but when it comes to UC Davis Picnic Day, you can't remove people from them. Nor would UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology want that. Roach Races are an integral part of Picnic Day.

The crowd flows into 122 Briggs Hall in the early morning of April 23, UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Briggs Hall Showcases Forest, Medical and Agricultural Entomology

April 28th, 2022

If a room could beam, Room 122 of Briggs Hall certainly beamed on Saturday, April 23 during the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, showcased forest, medical and agricultural entomology.

UC Davis students Noel Bresson and Jordan King pose at Briggs Hall on UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Wouldn't You Like to Be a Larva?

April 27th, 2022

Would you like to be an egg, a larva, a pupa or a fly? That was the question that awaited entomology enthusiasts who descended on Briggs Hall during the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 23. It was a cardboard cutout...

Ella Eich proudly displays the pink fly created by Paul Berliner of the Fly Fishers of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Fly Fishers of Davis Make Impact at UC Davis Picnic Day

April 26th, 2022

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's exhibits at Briggs Hall during the annual UC Davis Picnic Day wouldn't be complete without the Fly Fishers of Davis.