Entomology & Nematology News

Rice growers currently rely heavily on pyrethroid insecticides to manage tadpole shrimp, a crustacean pest that targets young rice seedlings in flooded rice fields.

Twelve graduate students with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology--and one affiliated with the department--will discuss their research in student competitions at the Entomological Society of America meeting in Denver, to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in the Colorado Convention Center.

With spider decorations dangling from trees and entomologists representing everything from a horse fly to a tortoise beetle to a lamp, the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology celebrated its 75th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 23 with an outdoor Halloween party hosted by the Bohart Museum Society.

Professor Jason Bond, the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the newly appointed Associate Dean for Research and Outreach for Agricultural Sciences, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

A research laboratory that collaborates with UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock on cancer research, using nanobodies from camelids and gene therapy to target tumors, has been named the State Key Laboratory for Nanobodies in the Guangxi Province, China.