This bug's for you. Ever tasted a cricket? A mealworm? An earthworm? You can if you attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house themed "Gobble, Gobble, Munch, Munch, Crunch: Entomophagy, to be held from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept.
It was the fall of 2009 when a half-acre bee garden on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis campus, sprang to life. Headlines on colony collapse disorder dominated the news media, as scientists declared "honey bees are in trouble.
Landmark research led by UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo provides new insight into the genomics of the blood-sucking tsetse fly, an insect that transmits the parasite that causes human and animal trypanosomiasis.
A celebration of life for Robbin Thorp, a global and legendary authority on bees and a distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Oct.
