The Bohart Museum of Entomology has announced its schedule of open houses and special events for the 2025-26 academic year.

The open houses. free and family friendly, are held on weekends at the Bohart base, Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. Admission and parking are free.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is showing several insect-themed displays in the Vacaville Museum’s six-month-long gallery exhibit, “The Art of Death," underway through Nov. 15 at 213 Buck Ace., Vacaville.

The Bohart Museum, home of a global collection of eight million insect specimens, is sharing educational information involving multiple insect species, as well as the specimens.

Staff research associate Joseph Tauzer, who manages the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility and who serves three labs within the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is a winner in the UC Davis Staff Assembly's coveted 2025 Citations of Excellence Awards Program.

A Staff Assembly panel selected Tauzer for the No. 2 award in service awards category. He will receive $1000 cash prize and special recognition at the Staff Assembly Awards Ceremony, set Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the residence of UC Davis Chancellor Gary May.

Meet UC Davis doctoral alumnus Marshall McMunn, one of the newer members of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) faculty.

McMunn, who joined the ENT faculty in October of 2023, is an assistant professor of teaching, skilled in field biology instruction and data analysis, with key interests in technology-enhanced learning and equity in education.

Meet UC Davis doctoral alumna Amanda Hodson, assistant professor of soil ecology and pest management, and one of the newer members of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) faculty. She coordinated the department's seminars for the 2024-25 academic year.

UC Davis nematologists shared the international spotlight at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held in Victoria, British Columbia.

The UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program created quite "the buzz" when they presented an educational and entertaining program at the Vacaville Museum Guild's annual Children's Party, held in the Museum courtyard.

CAMPB introduced the children, ages 3 to 9, to  "the wonderful world of bees." 

A special project on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis campus, will feature  native bee nests and the research of UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette, associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Entomology and Nematology.

(Watch video tribute to Jeff Aldrich by UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal)

The scientific world is mourning the passing of internationally recognized Jeffrey Richard Aldrich, a retired USDA-ARS chemical ecologist and former UC Davis researcher who died June 28 at age 75 in Fort Myers, Fla. He was known, a peer said, as  "one of the best insect chemical ecologists in the world."

Molecular geneticist and physiologist Joanna Chiu, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology-- and internationally recognized for her research on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate circadian and seasonal biology and on invasive species genomics--is a newly elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA).