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Congratulations, Mary Lou!

Former UC Davis Chancellor James Henry Meyer (1922-2002) would have been proud. His daughter-in-law, Mary Louise “Mary Lou” Flint, a longtime leader of the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) Program and a...

Mary Lou Flint outside her new office at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mary Lou Flint outside her new office at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Medflies: Permanent Residents

Breaking news shook the agricultural world today. The Mediterranean fruit fly, considered the world's worst agricultural pest, is one of at least five fruit flies established in California. It cannot be eradicated. So says entomologist James Carey of...

Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)

Mediterranean Fruit Fly. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)

Bugs Will Rule at UC Davis Picnic Day

There's no doubt about it. Bugs will rule at the 99th annual UC Davis Picnic Day this Saturday, April 20.  The UC Davis Department of Entomology is planning lots of "bug" activities as part of the campuswide celebration.  Visitors...

Briggs Hall is a popular place to be on UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Briggs Hall is a popular place to be on UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Visitors will flock to the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Visitors will flock to the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Principal editor/entomologist Steve Dreistadt of UC IPM explains insects to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Principal editor/entomologist Steve Dreistadt of UC IPM explains insects to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Alum and the Pathogens

It will be like "old home week" when professor Kelli Hoover of Pennsylvania State University presents a seminar on Tuesday, March 5 on the UC Davis campus. Hoover, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1997, will discuss...

Kelli Hoover of Penn State chats with Kevin Heinz (center) of Texas A&M and Bruce Hammock of UC Davis at a meeting of the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Kelli Hoover of Penn State chats with Kevin Heinz (center) of Texas A&M and Bruce Hammock of UC Davis at a meeting of the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Kelli Hoover (front center) received her doctorate from the UC Davis Department of Entomology in 1997. She's shown here in 1993 with (from left) major prin 19ofessor Sean Duffey (1943-1997), Billy McCutchen and Bryony Bonning. (Courtesy Photo)

Kelli Hoover (front center) received her doctorate from the UC Davis Department of Entomology in 1997. She's shown here in 1993 with (from left) major professor Sean Duffey (1943-1997), Billy McCutchen and Bryony Bonning. (Courtesy Photo)

Our Man (Entomologist) in Washington

It's going to be a busy year for UC Davis integrated pest management specialist/professor Frank Zalom. Make that several years. Zalom, who just completed a year as the vice president-elect of the 6000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA),...

ESA vice president Frank Zalom (far right) of UC Davis with ESA president Robert Wiedenmann (far left) of the University of Arkansas, and Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). (Photo courtesy of ESA)

ESA vice president Frank Zalom (far right) of UC Davis with ESA president Robert Wiedenmann (far left) of the University of Arkansas, and Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). (Photo courtesy of ESA)

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