Rangelands

If you attended the 2018 campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day and headed over to see the insects at Briggs Hall, home of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, you may have seen an enthusiastic drummer performing in The Entomology Band.

The invasive pest spotlight focuses on emerging or potential invasive pests in California. In this issue, we cover the brown widow spider.

Newly published work by an international team of researchers, including lead author UC Davis nematologist Shahid Siddique, may result in new targets for the future development of nematode-resistant crops. The open-access journal Nature Communications, published the peer-reviewed research Oct. 19.

We usually see male Valley carpenter bees, Xylocopa sonorina, in the spring and summer, but in the fall? On Oct. 17? But there he was, the familiar golden bee with green eyes, robbing nectar from a Mexican petunia, Ruellia simplex, in a Vacaville, Calif., garden.

"In 2020, malaria deaths increased by 12 percent compared with 2019. The increases in malaria cases are deaths were associated with disruption to services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clara Stuligross is passionate about wild bees, and you should be, too. Stuligross, who received her doctorate in ecology on Sept.

'Tis "Friday Fly Day" (also known as #Fridayflyday in the Twitter world), and it's almost Halloween.

Despite widespread insect declines, plants are experiencing unprecedented levels of insect damage in comparison to their fossilized counterparts, according to newly published research by a trio of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist Emily Meineke.

Two members of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty are collaborating with UC Davis doctoral alumnus Billy Krimmel, ecologist and founder of Miridae Living Labs, West Sacramento, for the 2022-23 Seed Pile Project, a citizen scientist project aimed at a better understanding of...

Want to join the 2022-23 Seed Pile Project, a community science initiative by Miridae Living Labs of West Sacramento and UC Davis faculty that aims to better understand the dynamics of native plant seed dispersal in human-dominated landscapes?