Backyard Orchard News
Don't Miss This: Maggot Art at the Bohart
Maggot art at the Bohart! That rhymes. And that's what's planned as the family craft activity...
This maggot art is the work of entomologist-artist Diane Ullman, professor of entomology at UC Davis and former chair of the department. She served as the co-founding director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The UC Department of Entomology and Nematology offers maggot art at Briggs Hall during the annual UC Davis Picnic Day. This year's Picnic Day is set April 13. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Forensic Entomologist Danielle Wishon at the Bohart Museum Open House Jan. 12
When you attend the open house on Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology (you know...
Danielle Wishon, shown here in 2011 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, will be back at the Bohart on Saturday, Jan. 12 to participate in an open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Times Flies When You're Studying Flies! Bohart Museum Open House Jan. 12
Time flies when you're having fun? No, time's fun when you're studying flies! Take it from the...
UC Davis graduate student Socrates Letana collecting flies in the Philippines. He studies botflies with major professor Lynn Kimsey.
UC Davis fourth-year doctoral student Charlotte Herbert Alberts holds her acrylic painting of an Assassin fly (Ommatius sp.) that she painted to celebrate World Robber Fly Day, April 30.
Congratulations, Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page!
Internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., is a pioneer researcher in...
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page examines a swarm at Arizona State University, where he served as provost.
Zeroing in on the Spotted-Wing Drosophila
It's an invader that has long attracted attention--and alarm--in California agriculture. "The...
UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Brian Gress will discuss "Host Selection and Resistance Evolution in Drosophila Suzukii" at a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 9 in 122 Briggs Hall.