Two UC Davis forest entomologists who studied with the late chemical ecologist Steven Seybold, a faculty-research associate with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have published two complementary papers on the walnut twig beetle that shed more light on the invasive pest.
Newly published UC Davis research, the first of its kind, reveals that pesticide exposure and food scarcity pack a double punch to blue orchard bees, Osmia lignaria, a wild bee that pollinates early spring bloom, including almonds.
Newly published UC Davis research analyzing modern-day and museum collections of monarch butterflies over a 200-year period indicates that the loss of migration and range expansion leads to smaller and shorter wings.
Xianhui "Nitrol" Liu, who completed her doctorate in September 2020, will deliver her exit seminar virtually at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4 in a seminar scheduled by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
Chemical ecologist Anjel Helms of Texas A&M University will speak on "The Smells of Dinner, Death, and Danger: How Organisms Navigate Multitrophic Interactions in a Chemical World" at the next virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
