Bug Squad

 It was, indeed, a golden opportunity, twice-fold, and what UC Davis undergraduate students in a biochemistry class taught by UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal will always remember.Five, 10, 15, 20, 30 years from now they'll be saying "Remember that biochemistry class in Kleiber Hall when Dr…

 Close encounters of the third kind?"No, close encounters of the best kind!" say the scientists who study arachnids.That's what will happen when visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house see and learn about scorpions, tarantulas,  vinegaroon, whip spiders, trapdoor spiders, jumping…

 California has a designated state insect--the California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice--but it has no designated state bee.Forty-eight of the 50 states in the nation have a designated state insect or a specific insect for a particular category, such as the state butterfly. Only Iowa and Michigan…

 There isn't much that she can't do or hasn't done!UC Davis alumna Nazzy Pakpour is a PhD, a biotech company founder, an entomologist, a children's book author, a mother of two children,  a former professor and a research scientist.Pakpour, co-founder and chief executive officer of Yeast Bay Bio, …

 The UC Davis Bee Haven is not just the home of honey bees, Apis mellifera. The half-acre pollinator demonstration garden, installed in the fall of 2009 by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT), is also the home sweet home of native bees, plus many other pollinators.Located at…