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USDA forest research entomologist Chris Fettig of the USDA's Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, will speak on "Bark Beetles: How Tiny Insects Are Transforming Western Forests with a Little Help From Climate Change" at a seminar sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematolog...

USDA Forest Service research entomologist Justin Runyon of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Montana, will present a special UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in-person and virtual seminar on "Secrets of a Long Life: Chemical Defense of Bark Beetles by Bristlecone Pines" on Tuesday...

If you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Sunday on beetles, you may have seen what Bohart research associate Brittany Kohler displayed: a live diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus.

They came. They saw. They stayed. And it was all about the beetles: "Beetlemania.

[Originally featured in the Winter 2022 Issue of UC IPM's Green Bulletin Newsletter] Weeds can be a problem in any landscaped areas including around trees, shrubs, flower beds, or lawns and turf.

If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland has to say about her research at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Are you ready for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day? Plans are being finalized for the popular "Day of Science." Scheduled Saturday, Feb.

Something clicked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Beetlemania" last Sunday afternoon at the University of California, Davis. But it was not the click beetles. That "click" was the love of science in general, and the love of beetles, in particular.

UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland will speak on Biogeography and Eye Size Evolution of the Ogre-Faced Spiders at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25 in 122 Briggs Hall. Her seminar also will be virtual.

The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and beetles from Belize and more... And you're invited. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house, themed "Beetles," from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan.