Rangelands

Pollination ecologist Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will speak on "Beyond Flowers; Examining the Role of Soils in Bee Conservation Efforts" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

It was July 3, 2020. The male bees, Melissodes agilis, were getting quite territorial. Every time a butterfly, a honey bee or another insect in our family's pollinator garden expressed an interest in foraging on the Mexican sunflowers, Tithonia rotundifola, a male Melissodes buzzed them.

Biochemistry and molecular biology major Barry Nguyen, enrolled in a longevity course taught by UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, won first place in the science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) category of the 2021 Norma J.

In an era when folks say they have no clue what nematology is, it's gratifying to see it make the headlines.

I sat (virtually) through a local irrigation district board meeting this morning. As you might imagine in a year like this, drought was on everybody's mind, from elected board members to staff to customers.

UC Davis undergraduate student Juan Amado Ado Sales, a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology and a laboratory assistant for nematologist Shahid Siddique, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has just been awarded a coveted summer fellowship from the UC Davis Innovati...

Seen any Pipevine Swallowtails lately? The UC Davis Ecological Garden is teeming with eggs, larvae, pupa and adults. The butterflies there seem particularly fond of nectaring on Jupiter's beard, Centranthus ruber.

Humans have been stripping mother earth of her verdant, life supporting cloak for a long time, but the damage has shot up to a critical stage during recent years. To extend the metaphor further, earth has been stripped so bare that ecological systems are out of balance.

Chemical engineer Javier Ceja-Navarro, a research scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Biological Systems and Engineering, will present the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology virtual seminar on "The Complex Microbial Life and Interactions in Lilliputian Lands...

Botanists Beverly Rathcke (1945-2011) and Jeanne Baret would have been proud. In their lifetimes, they didn't receive nearly enough credit for their work, but now they are memorialized in the names of newly described species of bacteria from the genus Acinetobacter that are specialized to flowers.