Bug Squad

Hi, Butters! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, you'll probably meet a scorpion named Butters. It's a new arrival, donated by a retired educator. She did not name it Butters.

Nematologist Christopher Pagan, who received his doctorate in the fall of 2024 from UC Davis, will deliver his exit seminar on "Soil Nematode Community Analysis: Insights from 28S Metabarcoding" at a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Feb.

What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win a regional bumble bee contest, a contest you didn't know about at the time.

When UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro collected the first cabbage white butterfly of the year on Thursday, Jan. 23 to win his annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, the butterfly rode in sweet style to his campus office/lab--in a Big Blue soda bottle.

Can artificial intelligence be used in nematode management strategies? You won't want to miss a UC Davis seminar by Jiue-in Yang, assistant professor of nematology at UC Riverside.