- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
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What's a picnic without bugs!
The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is gearing up for the 110th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, set April 20.
This year, all of the entomology exhibits, including those at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, will be at Briggs Hall. (The Bohart Museum headquarters in the Academic Surge Building will be closed on Picnic Day.)
Picnic Day at Briggs Hall is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some of...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Nematologists answered scores of questions at the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Day, a "Super Science Day" held Feb. 10.
The Nematode Collection, showcased in the Katherine Esau Science Hall, drew hundreds of visitors wanting to know more about the organism commonly known as "roundworm."
Nematologist Shahid Siddique, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Alison Blundell, a doctoral candidate in Plant Pathology, coordinated the displays.
The collection highlighted both animal and plant parasitic nematodes. Visitors...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Can you link nematodes, aka roundworms, with tomatoes, sugar beets, peaches, dogs, horses, whales and even Mormon crickets?
You'll see specimens and get to talk to nematologists during the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 10. The free and family friendly event, known as “Super Science Day," will showcase 10 museums or collections.
The nematode collection, headed by Shahid Siddique, associate professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. in the Katherine Esau...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Meet the scientists! Ask questions!
Plans are underway for the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free "Super Science Day" for the public to see science in action and learn about 10 UC Davis museums and collections.
The event is set for Saturday, Feb. 10, the weekend before Presidents' Day weekend.
Participating will be:
- Anthropology Museum, 328 Young Hall and grounds, open from noon to 4 p.m.
- Arboretum and Public Garden, Habitat Gardens in the Environmental GATEway, adjacent to the...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Target-site insensitivity (TSI) is an important mechanism of animal resistance to toxins," says nematologist Adler Dillman of the University of California, Riverside. "TSI evolved in parallel in the monarch butterfly and other insects that specialize on milkweeds and is thought to have facilitated sequestration of cardiac glycosides that may protect these insects from predation and parasitism."
Dillman, professor and chair of the UCR Department of Nematology, will share his research in a presentation titled "Nematode Parasitism of Insects with Toxic Cardenolides," hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and...