Entomology & Nematology News

Much of the world may be focused on the Asian giant hornet, aka murder hornet, but there are 21 other known species of hornets in the genus Vespa, and all are reviewed in newly published research in the journal Insect Systematics and Diversity.

DAVISA 16-member team of international researchers is targeting autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to see if a drug discovered in the Bruce Hammock lab at the University of California, Davis, can support efforts to control or block the neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Former NASA astronaut Steve Robinson, now a UC Davis professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been there, done that.

It's ridiculous to call the Asian giant hornet recently found in British Columbia and Washington state the murder hornet, says noted UC Davis wasp expert and researcher Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematol...