Entomology & Nematology News

You can't miss it. And it's perfect for a bear hug. A newly installed water bear or tardigrade sculpture at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, promises not only to be a cuddly campus landmark but it may be the world's largestand onlysculpture of its kind.

(Editor's Note: She also will present a webinar from noon to 1 p.m., Monday, Feb. 15.) UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Kathy Darragh will discuss All About Heliconius Butterflies at noon today (Feb. 8) as part of the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month. Link to https://bit.

Agroecologist Estel Jimnez-Soto, a postdoctoral scholar/lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "A Complex Cup of Joe: Biodiversity, Pest Control and Political Ecologies in Mexican Coffee Agroforests" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology virtual seminar at 4:10 p.m.

UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, a global authority on tsetse flies, is the principal investigator of a research project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that involves scanning the entire reproductive cycle of the fly.

University of Florida entomology professor Bryony Bonning, an eminent scholar with close ties to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of the Entomological Society of America's 2020 Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology (PBT).