Entomology & Nematology News

A male Habropoda pallida bee from the Mojave Desert covered with Meloe franciscanus triungulins (first install larvae). These triungulins will transfer from the male bee to female bees during mating and then deplane from the female bee when she enters her nest. The blister beetle larvae feed on the pollen and nectar provisions inside the bee nest and then emerge as an adult beetle the next winter (one beetle per each bee cell). (Copyrighted photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)

Groundbreaking Case of Exploitation, Deception: What UC Davis-UC Riverside Scientists Learned About Parasitic Blister Beetles and Digger Bees

September 10, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

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.

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Wendy Mather, program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, checks out a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Behind the Bee Veil: Meet Wendy Mather of the California Master Beekeeper Program

September 4, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

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

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Professor Jason Bond, newly selected Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, in his office in Academic Surge. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotlight on Jason Bond: The Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics

August 30, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

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.

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Three UC Davis Faculty Members to Play Key Roles in Brazilian Entomology Conference

August 27, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

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.

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Doctoral candidates Emily Bick and Brendon Boudinot were part of the 2016 UC Davis Linnaean Games Team that won the national championship.

Emily Bick: ESA Student Certification Award

August 24, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

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...

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