Entomology & Nematology News

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The Western corn rootworm, known as the billion-dollar beetle because its larvae ravage America's corn crops to the economic tune of $1 billion a year, may need a new nickname.

Postdoctoral researchers Amber Crowley-Gall and Marshall McMunn of the Rachel Vannette lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have each received a two-year, $165,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the U.S.

UC Davis doctoral student Alexandria Allie Igwe, advised by community ecologist and assistant professor Rachel Vannette of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has received a prestigious $138,000 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on soil microbial communiti...

Ant specialist Brendon Boudinot, who received his doctorate in entomology in early June from the University of California, Davis, has been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to do evolutionary and comparative anatomy in Jena, Germany. It is a two-year fellowship.