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Let's be social! How much do you know about social wasps? Would you like to engage in a "meet-and-greet" with them and talk to a wasp expert?

The winter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are underway. All seminars are on Mondays at 4:10 p.m. in Room 122 of Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672. No seminar will take place on Monday, Jan.

Plans are underway for the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free "Super Science Day" for the public to observe science in action, and meet the scientists one-on-one. The event, set for Saturday, Feb.

The Bruce Hammock laboratory is hosting a special seminar on "Enhanced Baculoviral Virulence by Suppressing EpOME Degradation in Lepidopteran Insects," to be presented by Professor Yonggyum Kim of Korea at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 22 in 122 Briggs Hall. The seminar also will be on Zoom.

Meet the scientists! Ask questions! Plans are underway for the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free "Super Science Day" for the public to see science in action and learn about 10 UC Davis museums and collections. The event is set for Saturday, Feb.

Butterflies are treasures, like great works of art. Should we not value them as much as the beauty of Picasso's art or the music of Mozart or the Beatles?Lincoln Brower (1931-2018), renowned Lepidopterist educated at Princeton and Yale universities.

Photographer: "Well, hello there, Jumping Spider! What 'cha doing?" Jumping Spider: "Sunning myself, that's all." Photographer: "And you're not looking for prey? Jumping Spider: "I tried to hide in that red zinnia over there, and ambush a syrphid fly but I missed.

From an entomologist's perspective, 2023 couldn't have been a more interesting year for oak pests! The first sign of great and awesome things to come was in the spring when it became clear many oaks were going to produce abundant acorns.

"Target-site insensitivity (TSI) is an important mechanism of animal resistance to toxins," says nematologist Adler Dillman of the University of California, Riverside.

So, you're sitting in your backyard, enjoying some sunshine (sun break!) on the first day of the year, and you hear a bumble bee buzzing in your Madrone tree.