Entomology & Nematology News

The Bohart Museum of Entomology is celebrating National Moth Night on Saturday, July 30 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.--both indoors in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building at 555 Crocker Lane, and outdoors, within a short walking distance.

Entomologist Brennen Dyer, a laboratory assistant and a highly praised jack-of-all-trades at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, is a winner in the eyes of faculty and colleagues, and now he's a winner in the eyes of UC Davis Staff Assembly officials.

A highly controlled clinical study in Iquitos, Peru shows that a spatial repellent used as an intervention tool significantly lowered the risk of virus transmission by the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, according to a team of 25 international scientists, including UC Distinguished Professor T...

Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus and author of the children's book, The Story of the Dogface Butterfly, will read her 35-page book to children and parents at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on the California dogface butterfly.

UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the Department of Entomology, was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a June ceremony in Phoenix, Ariz.