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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025: In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega

March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science

March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way

March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs

UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)

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Bruce Hammock and 'Why Science Is Full of Surprises'

November 27th, 2024

It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of incredible research in the news.

Inga Zasada, who received her doctorate in plant pathology in 2002 from UC Davis and is now a research plant pathologist with USDA-ARS, will present a seminar on Dec. 2 in 122 Briggs Hall.

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UC Davis Alumna Inga Zasada to Present Dec. 2nd Seminar on Nematodes

November 26th, 2024

UC Davis doctoral alumna Inga Zasada of the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Ore., will return to her alma mater on Monday, Dec.

Standing behind the ESA motif are UC Davis doctoral candidates Christofer Brothers, CC Edwards and Lexie Martin.

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Outstanding Group of UC Davis Graduate Students at ESA Meeting

November 25th, 2024

Graduate students with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology excelled at the recent Entomological Society of America meeting in Phoenix.

At the Entomological Society of America meeting, doctoral candidate Mia Lippey (right) takes a selfie with Bodil Cass, former postdoctoral scholar in the lab of UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor Jay Rosenheim. Lippey won a coveted President's Prize for her presentation, "A Big Data Approach to Characterizing Impacts of Climate Warming on Agricultural Arthropod Populations."

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Congrats to Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman, UC Davis Entomology Doctoral Candidates

November 22nd, 2024

Congrats to two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology doctoral candidates: Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman.

Grappeltail dragonfly, the club-tailed dragonfly.It belongs to the genus Octogomphus, which has one species, O. specularis. The dragonfly derives its "clubtail" name from the club-like widening at the end of its abdomen. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)

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UC Davis-Affiliated Experts Discuss Dragonflies on 'Critter Chat'

November 21st, 2024

Meet the Grappeltail dragonfly, the club-tailed dragonfly. It belongs to the genus Octogomphus, which has one species, O. specularis. The dragonfly derives its common name from the club-like widening at the end of its abdomen.