UC Davis undergraduate students seeking information on how to write their first research publication--or to learn more about research writing in general--are invited to register for a free workshop to take place Thursday, Feb. 13 in the UC Davis Student Community Center. 

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, will host an open house on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The event, free and open to the public, will be a general open house. “It is simply open hours, but on the weekend, when people don’t need to wrestle with parking apps, because parking is free,” said Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator.

The Bohart Museum is located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane. 

Postdoctoral scholar Angie Lenard of the University of Nevada, Reno, will speak on "Insects in Human-Modified Environments" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar, set for 4:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 13 in Room 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be on Zoom. The link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

The long-awaited update of the landmark UC Davis-authored book, Queen Bee Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. (1907-2003), “the father of bee genetics,”  and his former doctoral research mentee Robert E.

Hearing a queen bee piping is music to her ears.  So is the shimmering sound of the harp.  

Meet Samantha Murray, the newly selected garden coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven, a pollinator and demonstration garden installed in the fall of 2009 by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT). Although undergoing restoration since last summer, The Haven continues to be open to the public from dawn to dusk. 

UC Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) entomology advisor Dylan Beal, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Program, will be the lead-off speaker of the 2025 UC Davis Entomology and Nematology's winter seminar series.

Mark your calendar!

The 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day is set for Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, announced coordinator and co-founder Tabatha Yang, public education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. 

The 58 students in a fall quarter UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology class, ENT 010, not only learned “The Natural History of Insects” but they learned how to produce  “infomercials,” spotlighting such insects as honey bees,  stingless bees, fungus-growing ants, jewel wasps and blow flies.

The infomercials also include insect migration, insect sociality, and entomophagy (consumption of insects). They range in duration from two-to-five-minutes.

Suds for a bug?

The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, gets underway Jan. 1.

The person who finds the first live  cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, of the year in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano, will receive a pitcher of beer or its equivalent.

What are you doing on New Year's Day?

Weather permitting, you can begin searching for the first bumble bee of the year in the two-county area of Yolo and Solano. If you photograph or video it, and you are judged the winner, a prize awaits you--in addition to bragging rights.