Rangelands

Gotta love those spiders. We recently saw an adorable jumping spider (aren't all jumping spiders adorable?) huddled or cuddled (your preference) within a layer of yellow rose petals. It didn't look like a poster child for Halloween. It looked right at home. It's still there.

Hey, wait, take me with you! No, leave me alone! Let me go! Have you ever seen insects struggling to free themselves from the reproductive chamber of a milkweed blossom?

Winning an Editors' Choice Award was a milestone for an international research team, including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange. De Lange assembled a project team that wrote a research paper on the agricultural use of drones, published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE).

Bonding works both ways... Bonding a livestock guardian dog (LGD) to livestock is a critical first step in using dogs to protect livestock from predators.

A research paper on the agricultural use of drones, co-authored by a four-member international team including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange and published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology, has won the prestigious 2021 Editors' Choice Award.

He's a giant in his field--a veritable Sequoia in the flatlands. But he's an entomologist with an incredible reach that extends in practically all corners of the insect science world.

UC Davis distinguished professor Frank Zalom, a noted integrated pest management (IPM) specialist and a past president of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), is a newly elected Honorary Member of the ESA, an honor bestowed for his long-term dedication and extraordinary contributions to the 7...

The Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of California, Davis, is in the news today, and what wonderful, exciting news! Jason Bond, UC Davis professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics is a newly selected co-editor-in-chief of t...

Jason Bond, professor of entomology and the Evert and Marion Schlinger endowed chair in insect systematics, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Hojun Song, an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, are the newly selected co-editors-in-chief of the journal Insect...

When Laura Snell first came to the far northeastern corner of California, she was amazed to find that the Board of Supervisors in Modoc County where cows outnumber people by a ratio of 13 to 1 was composed almost entirely of women.