Bug Squad

 Meet Lisa Baik, the new mosquito researcher at UC Davis.Baik, a UC Davis alumna and a former postdoctoral researcher at Yale University--and described as a “brilliant scientist”--is the newest member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology  (ENT) faculty.Baik joined the faculty…

 Who's speaking at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminars for the fall quarter?Marshall McMunn, assistant professor of teaching and coordinator of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's 2025-26 seminars, has announced the fall seminar schedule.Seminars will begin…

 It's a distinct privilege and high honor to receive the Thomas and Nina Leigh Distinguished Alumni Award from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.Meet Hannah Burrack, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University, who will receive the award and…

 It's official: the UC Davis Bee Haven will be part of the 2026 UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.The event, free and famly friendly and billed as a Super Science Day, takes place Feb. 21 throughout the UC Davis campus. It's an opportunity to explore, discover and connect, said coordinator and co-founder…

 There’s a “mom” in the word Stagmomantis, as in Stag-mom-antis limbata. That genus name seems quite appropriate for a gravid mantis, don't you think?Take the mama-to-be that's a permanent tenant in a Vacaville patch of African blue basil. She knows this is the place to "bee."We've nicknamed her …