Entomology & Nematology News

Scientist MaryAnn Wohlers Montague, a longtime UC Davis Department of Entomology staff research assistant who retired from UC Davis in 2001 after more than 33 years of service, died Thursday, July 5 in an automobile accident in Dixon. She was 77. Mrs.

If you're a plant and an insect is attacking you, you can communicate your stress to nearby plants as a way to alert them about potential danger--very similar to how animals communicate or respond to predators.

Let us spray. Water balloons, water guns, super sprayers, and buckets prevailed when dozens of scientists participated in the 15th annual Bruce Hammock Lab Water Balloon Battle on the Briggs Hall lawn at the University of California, Davis.

A research paper on Parkinson's disease that's the work of scientists at Chiba University, Japan, and the University of California, Davis, has been selected as an Extramural Paper of the Month by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman is off to France in November but it's not a dream vacation. It's a dream opportunity: a Fulbright-funded scholarship to research plant virus-insect interactions. She will be studying plant viruses and the insects that transmit them.