Pest Management & Plant Health

Congratulations to Hoang Danh Derrick Nguyen, a graduate student in the Christian Nansen lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, for his recent publication in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development.

DAVIS--Aerosmith sang about Livin' on the Edge, but many species of insects show a definite preference for living on the edges of fields and orchards, and this phenomenon can lead to more accurate monitoring and better pest management tactics, according to a UC Davis student's review published in th...

Yes, you do eat insects! Maybe not deliberately, as in those who engage in entomophagy, the technical term for eating insects. Think of chocolate chirp cookies! Think of cricket flour! Think of making a meal out of mealworms.

Several years ago you probably read about the Stanford researchers who discovered that mealworms--larvae of darkling beetles--eat Styrofoam. And if you attended the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Dec.

March 18-24 was National Poison Prevention Week. While our blog post may be tardy, it's never too late to raise awareness about the risks associated with using pesticides and how to protect yourself and your family from accidental poisoning.

Let's consider plant-insect interactions in agro-ecosystems. That's what Katja Poveda, assistant professor of entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., does.

You're thinking about making Grandma's Southern Cornbread. You head for your pantry. You remember that six months ago you purchased a bag of cornmeal from a local supermarket and that you immediately emptied the contents into a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid.

Norman Knows... Horntailed Wasps In keeping with wood damaging insects, we turn to an unusual group of insects - the wood wasps, also known as horntails. These primitive wasps actually bore in and feed on wood. They are large, almost two inches in length, with a long ovipositor on the female.

Norman Knows... Western Drywood Termites Probably the biggest termite pest in this area is the Western Drywood Termite. No doubt, many of us have seen the homes and buildings covered with large tarps, or perhaps had your own home covered for fumigation.

Ella Mae Noffsinger, 84, who retired in 1991 as the senior museum scientist in charge of the UC Davis Nematode Collection, passed away March 22, 2018 in Woodland. She was a longtime resident of Palm Gardens Assisted Living, Woodland.