Bug Squad

UC Davis scientists weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited by Jocelyn Anderson.

Breaking news: UC Davis entomologists won three of the 12 student and professional awards given by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America. The award-winning trio: Medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo received the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award.

If you attended the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day last Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Room or took a side trip to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you may have gone home humming "A" is for arthropods. Or "B" is for Biodiversity Museum Day.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks? Well, how about nematodes? They can do "tricks," too. Professor and plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum of the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, willpresent the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

BioDivDay is Sunday. March 6 at the UC Davis Conference Center: Can't wait to see you! That's the message the organizers of the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day are spreading throughout social media.