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USDA forest research entomologist Chris Fettig will discuss bark beetle damage (shown) when he delivers a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1. (Photo courtesy of Chris Fettig)

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Chris Fettig: How Bark Beetles Are Transforming Forests with a Little Help from Climate Change

January 26, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

USDA forest research entomologist Chris Fettig of the USDA's Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, will speak on "Bark Beetles: How Tiny Insects Are Transforming Western Forests with a Little Help From Climate Change" at a seminar sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematolog...

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A bristlecone pine tree attacked by bark beetles. (Photo courtesy of Justin Runyon)

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USDA Research Entomologist to Give Seminar on Bark Beetles vs. Bristlecone Pines

January 26, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

USDA Forest Service research entomologist Justin Runyon of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Montana, will present a special UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in-person and virtual seminar on "Secrets of a Long Life: Chemical Defense of Bark Beetles by Bristlecone Pines" on Tuesday...

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A little girl closely examines a display of beetles. In back is Kipling "Kip" Will, associate professor with the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum: Beetlemania in Photos

January 25, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

They came. They saw. They stayed. And it was all about the beetles: "Beetlemania.

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Butterflies from Belize are part of the global collection of butterflies at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They are (far right) Blue Morpho, Morpho helenor montezuma; (top left), a leaf mimic, Fountainea eurypyle confusa; and blue hairstreak, Pseudolycaena damao, according to entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ready for the 12th Annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day? It's Feb. 18

January 24, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Are you ready for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day? Plans are being finalized for the popular "Day of Science." Scheduled Saturday, Feb.

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Lisa Chamberland explores the evolution and biogeography of spiders.

Lisa Chamberland to Present Seminar on Eye Size Evolution of Ogre-Faced Spiders

January 23, 2023

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland will speak on Biogeography and Eye Size Evolution of the Ogre-Faced Spiders at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25 in 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be virtual.

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