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Unless you're an entomologist, moth enthusiast, or an avid follower of National Moth Week, you may have never seen or heard about sheep moths. Those who attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on social wasps, held Jan.

Forest entomologist Todd Johnson assistant professor at Louisiana State University, will speak on "Characterizing Ecological Interactions of Arthropods in Forests under Global Change"at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

When it comes to building nests, social wasps are great artists and architects. But so were the participants in the family arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on social wasps, held Saturday, Jan.

Wildfire is an important ecological process that shapes patterns of plant diversity in many Mediterranean ecosystems, including California.

Newly published research led by UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal and Jiao Yin of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, identifies the major sex pheromone receptor gene involved in the unusual 48-hour rhythm clock of the large black chafer beetle, a severe agricultural pe...

Quick, get your camera ready! There's a wasp! Ever heard anyone say that? We remember capturing an image of a European paper wasp, Polistes dominula, that had just shredded a caterpillar and was about to fly the prey back to her colony. It was a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar, Agraulis vanillae.

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house on "Social Wasps" from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20, the traditional family art-and-crafts activity will be something special.

As of today, Jan. 17, no one has won the Beer-for-a-Butterfly contest sponsored by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of Evolution and Ecology.

"Eat, Excrete, & Die: Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors and Aging in Drosophila." That's the title of the Jan.

You've heard folks call insects "big 'ol bugs" (often in astonishment or terror), right? But have you ever seen a "bigeyed bug on a monarch butterfly?" Bigeyed bugs, Geocoris spp.