Bug Squad

 "Good morning, mourning cloak! Fancy meeting you here."The mourning cloak indeed chose a fancy meeting place. It touched down on our Tower of Jewels (Echium wildpretti) and began to nectar."I'm trying to get an image of you," I whispered. "Open your wings." And magically, or sort of magically, it did…

 You've seen dragonflies perched in meadows  but have you ever witnessed their hunting behavior?You won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, May 16 when UC Davis doctoral candidate and dragonfly expert Christofer Brothers shares his rhyming prose on dragonflies.He…

 An expert on the battle between root-knot nematodes and cowpeas will present a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, May 20.Plant breeder, geneticist and nematologist Bao-Lam Huynh of UC Riverside will speak on "Genetic Analysis and Marker-Assisted…

 UC Davis honey bee scientists will "bee" out in force this weekend at the annual California Honey Festival. This event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 16, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May 17,  at the Yolo County Fairgrounds, 1250 E. Gum Ave, Woodland. Admission is free.UC…

 A team of nine researchers led by UC Davis entomologist Mia Lippey published an important paper today on climate warming and the effect on agricultural pests.The work, “Field Data Challenge Predictions of Universal Crop Pest Proliferation under Warming,” appearing in the Proceedings of the National…