Entomology & Nematology News

UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, a global expert on vectorborne diseases, and renowned for his groundbreaking work on tsetse flies, is the 2022 recipient of the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America.

UC Davis undergraduate entomology major Gwendolyn "Gwen" Erdosh, a research scholar in the campuswide Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) and president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, is recipient of the inaugural Dr.

Professor and plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum of the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.on "The Tricks Phytonematodes Use to Modulate Plant Development." Her virtual seminar begins at 4:10 p.m.

The nematode collection displayed at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center will feature mostly root-knot nematodes and Ascaris (roundworm) nematodes, according to nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, and doctoral student A...

An amber-preserved ant pupa discovered in southeast Asia, and estimated to be 99 million years old, provides new insights into the evolution of ants, representing a missing link, according to an eight-member international team of biologists from America, Germany, Japan and Brazil led by UC Davis alu...