UC Davis doctoral candidate Marielle Hansel Friedman figuratively "lightened the way" to the winners' circle at the Graduate Student Competition for the President's Prize at the Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland, Ore.

Samantha Murray, education and garden coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven and a bee specialist, has just received a grant from the El Dorado Beekeepers (EDB) to support her research on how nutritional supplements affect honey bee health and colony performance. 

The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Nov. 15 will focus on "The Bees and Their Mimics."

Free and family friendly, the event will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Bohart Museum, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. 

“Have you ever wondered what keeps water healthy and naturally clean?”

UC Davis entomologist and invertebrate specialist Geoffrey Attardo will lead a free-and-family-friendly workshop, “Life Begins in Water: A Workshop on Restoring Healthy Wetland Communities,”  on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Capay Open Space Regional Park, Yolo County.

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--will be celebrated as a newly selected Fellow at the Entomological Society of America (ESA) plenary session on Sunday, Nov. 9.

And along came a spider...

And just in time for Halloween.

Scientists in the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have just published their research in the journal, Ecology and Evolution, about their newly discovered species of trapdoor spider that inhabits coastal sand dunes stretching from Monterey to California Baja, Mexico.

When the Bohart Museum Society hosts its annual pre-Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you'll never know what you'll see. This year:

Professor Nathan Rank of Sonoma State University, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus, will speak on "Local Adaptation and Population Persistence in a Montane Leaf Beetle" at his seminar to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

His talk begins at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672

Two doctoral candidates in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology presented their research at the annual meeting of the Orchard Bee Association (OBA), held Oct. 23-25 in Woodinville, Wash. 

Synthetic biologist Sean Leonard, a research scientist at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, will deliver a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on "Engineering Honey Bee Gut Bacteria to Activate Immunity and Limit Pathogens" on Wednesday, Oct. 29.