Entomology & Nematology News

DAVIS--A parasitic blister beetle thrives in digger bee nests through intricate exploitation and deception, adapting to different hosts in multiple geographic locations, according to groundbreaking research headed by evolutionary ecologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz of the University of California, Davis.

You may have seen her sharing information about honey bees at the annual California Agriculture Day at the State Capitol, Sacramento.

Most people don't bond with spiders, but Jason Bond, the newly selected Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, does.

Three University of California, Davis faculty members will play major roles at a joint meeting of the XXVII Brazilian Congress and X Latin American Congress of Entomology, to be held Sept. 2-6 in Gramado, Brazil.

Doctoral candidate Emily Bick of the Christian Nansen lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of the Entomological Society of America's 2018 student certification award, which recognizes outstanding entomology students interested in the mission of the ESA certificatio...