Entomology & Nematology News

DAVIS--A huge microsculpture of a cuckoo or emerald wasp, the work of noted British photographer Levon Biss, now greets visitors to the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis.

DAVIS--Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of the 11 campus recipients of this year's Hellman Fellowship grants.

DAVIS--Using candy (Skittles), magnolia leaves, mosquito eggs and sheets of paper, UC Davis agricultural entomologist and remote sensing technology researcher Christian Nansen explored how light penetrates and scatters--and found that how you see an object can depend on what is next to it, under it...

DAVIS--World-renowned honey bee geneticist Robert Eugene (Rob) Page Jr.

Is there a limit to how long we humans can live? Jeanne Calment of France (1875-1997), who died at age 122 (and 164 days), holds the record of the longest confirmed human lifespan.