Pest Management & Plant Health

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Professor Diane Ullman of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is a co-author of the publication on the Western flower thrips. This image was taken when she was doing research in France.
Bug Squad: Article

Congrats to the Thrips Team!

October 23, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congratulations to the international team of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist and co-author Diane Ullman, on their publication involving the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and is considered a supervector, spreading p...
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Chemical ecologist Anjel Helms of Texas A&M studies insect-plant interactions. She'll deliver a virtual seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Anjel Helms Seminar: 'The Smells of Dinner, Death, and Danger'

October 23, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Chemical ecologist Anjel Helms of Texas A&M University will speak on "The Smells of Dinner, Death, and Danger: How Organisms Navigate Multitrophic Interactions in a Chemical World" at the next virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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Professor Diane Ullman of UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology when she was doing research in France.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

UC Davis Entomologist Diane Ullman Part of International Team Publishing Key Research on Thrips

October 23, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Newly published research by an international team of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist and co-author Diane Ullman, promises to be an important resource on the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and is considered a superve...
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rodent awareness infographic
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Rodent Awareness Week

October 20, 2020
Rodent Awareness Week (October 18-24) is a campaign created by the National Pest Management Association to educate the public about the potential harm associated with rats and mice. In addition to damage to structures and property, rodents can transmit disease to other animals and humans.
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The larvae of the alfalfa butterfly are major pests of alfalfa. This butterfly is sipping nectar from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

The Good, the Bad and the Bugly

October 20, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The good, the bad, and the bugly... Don't miss the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology virtual open house on alfalfa and rice from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Oct. 22.
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This is an Aedes albopictus female mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

New York Mosquito Researcher to Discuss Zika Virus Infection

October 16, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Mosquito researcher Maria Onyango, a postdoctoral associate at the New York State Department of Health, Albany, N.Y., will deliver a virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, Oct.
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Figure 2. Female trees can produce more than 300,000 red, yellow and green “samaras” that each contain one seed covered by a winged and papery tissue used in wind dispersal. Credit: Cindy R. Kron, UC IPM.
From Soil to Science: Article

Tree-of-heaven is a preferred host for two invasive insect pests

October 16, 2020
By Cindy Kron
This article appeared in CAPCA Adviser, October 2020, pages 40-44. CA Association of Pest Control Advisers It is not uncommon for commercial agriculture to share a common boundary with riparian, forested or urban areas in California.
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