Entomology & Nematology News

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Meadow spittlebug nymph at the Bodega Marine Reserve. (Photo by Mikaela Huntzinger)
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Meadow Spittlebugs Declining Rapidly Along the California Coastline

August 15, 2018
Meadow spittlebugs, once very abundant on plants along the California coastline, are declining rapidly or vanishing from their previous habitats, according to ecologists Richard Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger of the University of California, Davis, co-authors of newly published research in the journa...
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Children of California migratory workers react to seeing a Madagacar hissing cockroach at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. A news story by Kathy Keatley Garvey, communications specialist for the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won the gold award in newswriting at the ACE conference. She also won a silver award for her "Once Upon a Monarch" post on her Bug Squad blog. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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UC Davis, UC ANR Communicators Bring Home the Gold, Silver and Bronze

August 9, 2018
Six communicators affiliated with the University of California, Davis, or the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) received a total of 10 awards for excellence at the 2018 conference of the international Association for Communication Excellence in Agricultu...
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