- Author: Janet S Hartin
To date, over 1,800 climate-ready shade trees and tips on their planting and long-term care have been provided by UC Master Gardeners and over 20 partners to residents of low shade neighborhoods in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties through the “Trees for Tomorrow Start Today” project. Tree species given away are identified from research projects including the joint University of California/United States Forest Service (USFS) study at UC Riverside as well as from other research, local observations, and input from the green industry and academic colleagues.
The "Trees for Tomorrow Start Today" project was implemented in 2019 by Area UC Cooperative Extension Horticulture Advisor Janet Hartin with support from 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...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Nematologist Adler Dillman of UC Riverside will present the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's first seminar of the year at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 8 on "Nematode Parasitism of Insects with Toxic Cardenolides."
His seminar will be in Room 122 of Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672. Associate professor and nematologist Shahid Siddique of the Department of Entomology and Nematology is the host.
Dillman, a professor of parasiotology and...
- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
32nd Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference (UCR UPMC) was held at UCR Campus (HUB Conference Rooms) on March 28, 2023. Over 120 attendees (including 114 registered conference attendees and sponsors from urban pest management industry) and several students (graduates and undergraduates) from UCR Entomology urban entomology program enjoyed this one day (8AM - 4:30PM) educational event, which was filled with many useful and interesting talks. Dr. Vernard Lewis from UC Berkeley (emeritus) has provided our annual Ebeling Memorial Lecture, going over the rich and diverse tradition of urban entomology work in the western US, including California, and University of California...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis faculty and friends are remembering internationally recognized medical entomologist Mir Mulla, a UC Riverside distinguished emeritus professor of entomology whose university career spanned 50 years of teaching, research and public service. He died Jan. 29 at his home in Riverside at age 97.
Robert Washino, emeritus professor of entomology, emeritus chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, and emeritus associate dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, praised him for his research and friendship.
"I first met Mir who