Entomology & Nematology News

When doctoral student Danielle Rutkowski of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology received the President's Prize in her category for her research presentation at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Denver, the prize was not only special but so was the photogra...

Gabriel Zilnik, a researcher at USDA's Agricultural Research Service, in Wapato, Wash. will be the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's next speaker. He'll deliver a virtual seminar on "Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning" at 4:10 p.m.

Postdoctoral scholar Fatemeh Ganjisaffar of the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on "Addressing an Evolving Invasive Species Crisis: Insecticide Resistance Management and Behavioral Control of Drosophila suzukii.

Three UC Davis doctoral students won major awards in the highly competitive 10-minute student speech competitions at the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting, held Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Denver.

So you're interested in honey bees and think you might want to become a beekeeper? Or, on the other hand, you've decided to keep bees but you're not quite ready for a colony? Or do you just want to learn about bees?