Entomology & Nematology News

DAVIS--Topics ranging from the wonders of black holes to the analysis of poetry reading recordings to protecting the world's last pristine ocean will highlight the UC Davis Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) presentations on Thursday, Feb. 15 in Room 115 of the Music Building.

DAVIS--Keynote speaker at the fourth annual UC Davis Bee Symposium: Keeping Bees Healthy, set Saturday, March 3 in the UC Davis Conference Room on Alumni Drive, is noted bee scientist/professor/author Tom Seeley of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., who will speak on "Darwinian Beekeeping.

(Editor's Note: The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will showcase three museums or collections on Feb. 17: Bohart Museum of Entomology, Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, and the Nematode Collection.

It's over. The winner of the 2018 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, sponsored by Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, isdrumrollArt Shapiro. Shapiro collected the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, at 11:23 a.m. Friday, Jan.

For 38 years, Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen did everything he could to help the honey bees. I am basically all pro-bee; whatever I can do for bees, I do it, Mussen told the American Bee Journal in a two-part interview published in 2011.