This was the scene at a recent UC Davis Picnic Day at Briggs Hall, home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. This year's Picnic Day is April 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Congratulations to the world's top 10   entomology departments, as listed today (April 3) in the long-awaited Times Higher  Education's Center for World University Rankings. 

The rankings show the University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology as No. 1.

In California, the University of California, Riverside, is ranked No. 2, and UC Davis, No. 7. That's not a national statistic, but a global one. Kudos!

The list:

1. University of Florida, 100 score
2. University of California, Riverside, 95.23
3. Cornell University, 91.95
4. Kansas State University, 91.29
5. North Carolina State University, 90.88
6. Michigan State University, 90.74
7. University of California, Davis, 89.88
8. University of Georgia, 88.98
9. Nanjing Agricultural University, China, 86.74
10. University of São Paulo in Brazil, 86.74

The departments were scored in five peformance areas: Teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff students and research) and industry outcome (knowledge transfer). View the World University Rankings methodology here.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, based in Briggs Hall, is led by chair Steve Nadler and vice chair Joanna Chiu.

Interested in insect science? Be sure to visit the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's displays at the 103rd annual campuswide Picnic Day on Saturday, April 22. Last year thousands of visitors flocked to Briggs Hall; Bohart Museum of Entomology, home of nearly eight million insect specimens; and the Sciences Laboratory Building (nematology display). Here's what the department did last year. More information pending!