Posts Tagged: seminar

Gotta Love Those Spiders

Gotta love those spiders! What, you don't? They scare you? And you scream? Fear not.  Arachnologists will set the record straight. (Maybe not your scream, though!) Just in time for Halloween, the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and...

This is a Calisoga spider that Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas will discuss at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Oct. 30. (Photo by arachnologist Marshal Hedin, San Diego State University)

This is a Calisoga spider that Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas will discuss at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Oct. 30. (Photo by arachnologist Marshal Hedin, San Diego State University)

UC Davis Scientist Will Discuss Disarming Defenses of the Varroa Mite

Honey bee scientists,  beekeepers and other bee enthusiasts are especially looking forward to this UC Davis seminar. UC Davis environmental toxicologist/biochemist Sascha Nicklisch will discuss how to disarm the defenses of the...

A varroa mite on a foraging honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A varroa mite on a foraging honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Learn About Bee-Flower Interactions from U.S. Forest Service Research Entomologist

You won't want to miss this. Pollinator ecologist Anthony Vaudo, a research entomologist with the U. S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, Idaho, will discuss "Pollen Nutritional Ecology of Bee-Flower Interactions" at a...

Mustard pollen covers this honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mustard pollen covers this honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Geoffrey Attardo: Seminar on Mating Biology of Tsetse Flies

Did you know that tsetse flies give birth to live offspring? That's just one of the facts that UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo will discuss when he presents a seminar on "The Mating Biology of Tsetse Flies--Insights...

Mating tsetse flies. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology)

Mating tsetse flies. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology)

Myrmecologist Jill Oberski: A Dream Come True

Picture this. Jill Oberski is in the third grade, stretched out on the classroom floor reading her "Audubon Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America."  Another insect publication is within reach. Fast forward to today: she's...

This is an illustration from Jill Oberski's exit seminar on pyramid ants.

This is an illustration from Jill Oberski's exit seminar on pyramid ants.

"Dr. Jill" (Oberski) answers ant questions at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on May 21. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

"Dr. Jill" (Oberski) answers ant questions at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on May 21. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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