Entomology & Nematology News

Pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is a newly selected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, a group of world-class scientists known for their scientific impact or outstanding contributions.

Medical entomologist and tsetse expert Geoffrey Attardo of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will discuss Got Milk? The Evolution and Biology of the Lactation in the Tsetse Fly at the next Science Caf presentation, set for 5:30 p.m.

(Editor's Note: A celebration of life took place Friday, Oct. 11 in the Putah Creek Lodge, UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden). Dr.

UC Davis doctoral student and forest entomologist Jackson Audley has received the 2019 Western Forest Insect Work Conference (WFIWC) Memorial Scholarship Award for his research on the chemical ecology of an invasive bark beetle, the walnut twig beetle.

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