Entomology & Nematology News

A UC Davis entomologist, formerly of the Harvard University Herbaria, is among the scholars and artists who helped spearhead the newly created Harvard Museum of Natural History's In Search of Thoreau's Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss," hailed as an examination of the natural world and cli...

Bumble bees prefer foraging on flowers that contain yeast, but does yeast benefit bumble bee survival and reproduction?

Doctoral student and forest entomologist Crystal Homicz of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will present her thesis proposal, "Impacts and Management of Western Pine Beetle in the Sierra Nevada During a Period of Rapid Change," at 11 a.m., Monday, April 25 via Zoom.

Molecular biologist Heather Bruce, a research associate at the UC Berkeley Marine Biological Laboratory, will speak on "Evolution and Development of Arthropod Appendages: Novelty and Homology" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminar on Wednesday, April 27.

A global seminar chronicling the 70-year history of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Brazilian equivalent of the National Science Foundation, will spotlight a series of scientists, including UC Davis scientists, in a keynote lecture by UC Davis distinguished...