Entomology & Nematology News

Spiders are everywhere. You're never too far away from a spider; a spider is always watching you," Professor Jason Bond told the crowd at his town-hall presentation at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on arachnids.

DAVIS--EicOsis LLC, a Davis-based company seeking to block chronic pain in humans and companion animals, has received a $5 million investment from Open Philanthropy to move original research developed in the University of California, Davis laboratory of Professor Bruce Hammock into human clinical tr...

Postdoctoral researcher and spider silk expert Sarah Stellwagen, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), will speak on "Towards Spider Glue: From Material Properties to Sequencing the Longest Silk Family Gene" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m.

Pulitzer-Prize winner Bert Hlldobler, one of the world's leading ant experts, will speak on "The Superorganism: Communication, Cooperation and Conflict in Ant Societies" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's seminar on Wednesday, April 17 at 4:10 p.m. in Room 122 of Briggs Hall.

Forensic entomologist and adjunct professor Robert Kimsey, master advisor in the Animal Biology program and a lecturer in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Elvira Galvan Hack, staff advisor in the Animal Biology major and a member of the Phoenix Cluster, won the 2019 Eleanor...