Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, is being honored with an inaugural Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award "in recognition of her exceptional initiative to create a significant positive impact on the UC Davis community over the past 18 months."

Nora Orozco, chief administrative officer for the Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) and the Department of Plant Pathology (PLP), served by the Phoenix Cluster, is the recipient of a UC Davis Staff Assembly's 2024 Citation for Excellence award for outstanding supervision.

The team spearheading the nomination included administrators, faculty, and members of the Phoenix Cluster advising team and the ENT awards committee.

Adam Wong, an assistant professor at the University of Florida (UF) who researches insect-microbe interactions, from mutualism to pathogenesis, will present the April 22nd seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. 

Update
This is the list of UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's spring quarter seminars, coordinated by Brian Johnson, associate professor.

The in-person seminars all took place from  4:10 to 5 p.m., Mondays in 122 Briggs Hall. All also were on Zoom:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9 5882849672

No seminar was held May 27 (Memorial Day).

Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology--and a newly selected Chancellor’s Fellow--will discuss “Bees in the Tahoe Basin: Pollination Ecology and Conservation” at a Thursday, April 25th seminar hosted by the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (UC Davis TERC).

What's a picnic without bugs?

The 110th annual campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day takes place Saturday, April 20 and lots of entomological activities are planned.

Meet the co-chairs of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Picnic Day Committee and check out the events.

The doctoral student co-chair is Grace Horne of the Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA).

Honey bee scientist Zac Lamas, a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) postdoctoral fellow with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), will present the UC Davis Entomology and Nematology seminar on Monday, April 15 on "How Doing a PhD Is Like Building a House."

Bees originated some 120 million years ago and now comprise more than 20,000 described species in seven families. But where did they originate?

Cornell University alumnus Eduardo Almeida, an associate professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, will discuss “The Evolutionary History of Bees in Time and Space” at a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on Monday, April 8.

The UC Davis Bee Haven will celebrate its 15th anniversary with an open house from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 6.

The half-acre garden,  a project of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus.

All UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology displays and activities at the 110th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, set Saturday, April 20, will be in and around Briggs Hall. This includes the Bohart Museum of Entomology displays.

The nation's entomological community, including the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is mourning the deaths of Professor Emeritus Charles Mitter of the University of Maryland, a resident of Davis; entomologist-author Elizabeth "Liz" Bernays, Regents’ Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and formerly on the UC Berkeley faculty; and Kim Flo

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A long-planned UC Davis symposium on “Tule and Cattail: A Tale of the Marsh Economy and Its Role in Human Health and Wellbeing”  aims "to advance the land management aims of local tribal communities and provide a platform to educate about the importance of maintaining wetland biology for climate change, ecological and human health, and vector control,” announced medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. 

Newly published research on a new genus of California trapdoor spiders—the work of the Jason Bond laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology--calls attention to not only the diversity of trapdoor spiders in the state, but a new species they named for national civil rights activist Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, a San Francisco Bay area native who resisted incarceration in the Japanese-American concentration camps during World Wa