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John Henry Comstock would be proud. At each annual meeting, the Entomological Society of America (ESA) presents the prestigious John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award to six outstanding graduate students, one from each branch of the ESA.

If you're attending college and don't have a good advisor, then you haven't met Elvira Galvan Hack and Robert Kimsey.

Cooperative Extension specialist Ian Grettenberger of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is a project leader on two of the three grants recently awarded by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) through programs Pesticide Consultation and Analysis (OPCA) and Proac...

Where is Tom's entomology kit? Does anybody know? When UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal delivered the Founders' Memorial Lecture at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in St. Louis, Mo.

Mistletoe is a familiar sight of the season, often found wrapped in ribbon and hung for certain festivities this time of year. But did you know it is actually a parasitic plant that grows on a number of landscape trees in California? There are two types of mistletoe in California.

Two doctoral students in the UC Department of Entomology and Nematology excelled in their research presentations at the recent meeting of the Entomological Society of America in St. Louis, Mo.

When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus, you're likely to see spots. That would be the Indian domino cockroach, Therea petiveriana, also variously called the desert cockroach or seven-spotted cockroach.

Members of the national award-winning University of California Linnaean Games Team competed in the Linnaean Games at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in St. Louis, Mo., but this time they didn't take home a trophy. The team was eliminated in the first round.

El aguacate, cuya evidencia ms antigua, se encontr en una cueva localizada en Puebla, Mxico hace 10 mil aos, es delicioso y se mezcla bien con casi todos los platillos, de ah que las principales cocinas lo han adoptado y en los Estados Unidos la demanda contina aumentando.

Vice President Glenda Humiston introduced alumni regent-designate Debby Stegura to UC Cooperative Extension staff and their community partners and clientele in Sonoma County on Nov. 15.