Entomology & Nematology News

A newly published UC Davis research paper pinpoints what could be the missing link in why some COVID-19 patients recover and some don't.

When five-year-old Rebecca Jean RJ Millena entered her kindergarten class in Concord, Calif., she immediately settled on a career choice: entomology. An About Me poster hanging in her childhood home in Concord confirms it: When I grow up, I want to be an entomologist. She did and she is.

One reason for the successful spread of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, to at least 17 California counties since 2013--from the Mexican border to Shasta County--may be linked to its resistance to pyrethroids, according to newly published UC Davis research examining genetic markers of resis...

Community ecologist Romina Rader of the University of New England's School of Environmental and Rural Science, will speak on "The Journey to Effective Pollination" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminar on Wednesday, March 10.

Assistant professor Monika Gulia-Nuss of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, will speak on "Progress Towards Making Ticks as a Genetically Tractable Model" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.