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Briggs Hall, home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will showcase insects, nematodes and spiders--and more--during the 110th UC Davis Picnic Day, set Saturday, April 20. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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List of UC Davis PIcnic Day Activities at Briggs Hall

April 13th, 2024
(Note: The main UC Davis Department of Entomology news page is at https://entomology.ucdavis.edu.) 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.
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Miss Bee Haven, a ceramic-mosaic sculpture by self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the UC Davis Bee Haven. This image was taken in 2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Archived News, March 2024

March 31st, 2024
Archived News for month of March 2024 from the UC Davis Entomology and Nematology website, Bond Lab Research Paper Calls Attention to Diversity of California's Trapdoor Spiders Tule and Cattail: A Tale of the Marsh Economy and Its Role in Human Health and Wellbeing UC Davis Students Fuse Art and Sci...
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Walter Leal, UC Davis distinguished professor, recipient of Academic Senate's Distinguished Faculty Research Award.
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UC Davis Professors Leal, Yang and Chiu: Distinguished Awards

February 25th, 2024
(Note: The main UC Davis Department of Entomology news page is at https://entomology.ucdavis.edu.) UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal: Third Academic Senate Award The saying, Good things come in threes, or Omne trium perfectum, rings true.
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Forest entomologist Todd Johnson of Louisiana State University
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LSU Forest Entomologist to Deliver Next ENT Seminar

January 23rd, 2024
Forest entomologist Todd Johnson assistant professor at Louisiana State University, will speak on "Characterizing Ecological Interactions of Arthropods in Forests under Global Change"at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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Male large black chafer beetles, Holotrichia parallela, flying toward a synthetic sex pheromone (in traps). (Photo courtesy of the Walter Leal lab)
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Walter Leal and Team Identify Major Sex Pheromone of Severe Ag Pest

January 19th, 2024
Newly published research led by UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal and Jiao Yin of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, identifies the major sex pheromone receptor gene involved in the unusual 48-hour rhythm clock of the large black chafer beetle, a severe agricultural pe...
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