Rangelands

If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for both of you, and one of you has to go. It's not you. It's the hornworm.

Meet "The Dogface Butterfly Guy." Naturalist Greg Kareofelas, an associate of the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology and an expert on the California state insect, the dogface butterfly, appeared several years ago on a segment of the PBS program, "Rob on the Road.

Two post-baccalaureate women seeking academic careers in science are gaining research experience in Jason Bond's laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, through a unique National Science Foundation (NSF) program aimed at countering some of the adverse academic effects of the CO...

Congratulations, Jessica Gillung! What an absolute dynamo! Gillung, an evolutionary biologist who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 2018 and is now on the faculty of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the newly announced recipient of the Entomological Society of Amer...

Bee gardeners are good stewards of the environment, which includes making the most of our precious water supplies in the garden. But are you getting the most Bees Per Gallon? We've recently completed a five-year study to evaluate the bee-attractiveness of common northern California landscape plants.

Evolutionary biologist Jessica Gillung, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 2018 and is now on the faculty of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the newly announced recipient of the Entomological Society of America's International Branch Early Career and Leadership...

The late Robbin Thorp, UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor and a tireless advocate of pollinator species protection and conservation, would have been proud.

Oh, to be a praying mantis, and hide among the flowers waiting for prey. On a warm sunny morning in Vacaville, Calif., this female Stagmomantis limbata positioned herself in a patch of Mexican sunflowers, Tithonia rotundifola.

Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're influenced by Jacques Cousteau, and encouraged by your high school biology teacher. So you launch a project to collect, record and sketch the intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Bay.

UC Davis entomologist Lynn Kimsey is making waves for her newly published research on intertidal invertebrates in the San Francisco Baya high school science project from 50 years ago.