Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira: Zeroing in on Circadian Rhythms in Parasitic Diseases
"In 2020, malaria deaths increased by 12 percent compared with 2019. The increases in malaria cases...
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira (left) won the Brown-Goldstein Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research in 2021 for her work investigating the circadian clocks of human parasites. This is the highest honor bestowed by the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Here she looks over data with world-renowned circadian rhythm researcher Joseph Takahashi. (Photo courtesy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas)
Exit Seminar on Oct. 18: Clara Stuligross, Ph.D., Is Passionate About Wild Bees
Clara Stuligross is passionate about wild bees, and you should be, too. Stuligross, who...
A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, heads toward Phalacia. (Photo by Clara Stuligross)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, heads toward a California golden poppy. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Citizen Scientists Invited to Join the Seed Pile Project
Want to join the 2022-23 Seed Pile Project, a community science initiative by Miridae Living Labs...
A honey bee foraging on a California golden poppy, the state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Targeting the Mexican Fruit Fly and Other Tephritid Pests
California citrus growers, especially those who grow grapefruit, hate this...
The Mexican fruit fly is a serious pest of grapefruit and mango.
Zeroing in on the Life of Scientific Illustrator Mary Foley Benson
The late Mary Foley Benson would have been proud. Benson, internationally known for her entomology...
Mary Foley (later Mary Foley Benson) at work as a scientific illustrator with the USDA. This image was taken in 1926 when she was 21.
Mary Foley Benson at her home studio in Davis, Calif. (Photo courtesy of the Auburn Journal, Oct. 11, 1981)