Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Geoffrey Attardo: Targeting the Reproductive Cycle of the Tsetse Fly
It's an exciting project and a crucial one. UC Davis medical...
UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, a global authority on tsetse flies.
Graphical abstract of the tsetse fly reproduction system by Geoffrey Attardo.
Conservation Biologist Shalene Jha and Her Passion
"About 90 percent of all bees are actually solitary. So despite kind of the public impression...
A native bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes communis, in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, foraging on a purple coneflower at the former Mostly Natives Nursery in Tomales, Marin County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female sweat bee, Svastra obliqua expurgate, foraging on a purple coneflower in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
February Is UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month!
The 10th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a science-based day celebrating the...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera section at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions from UC Biodiversity Museum Day visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A youngster feeds a stick insect at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Miss Beehaven, a sculpture of a worker bee by artist Donna Billick of DAvis, anchors the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Nematologist and doctoral student Corwin Parker of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology looks through a microscope at a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zooming in on the UC Davis Entomology/Nematology Seminars
The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminars for the winter quarter...
Coordinator of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's winter quarter seminars is Agricultural Extension specialist Ian Grettenberger, shown in his lab in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Research Entomologist to Discuss Enemy of Lettuce: Thrips
They're small, about 1 mm long or less, with characteristic fringed wings. They fly, but not...
Thrips is a major pest of lettuce production in Salinas. (Illustration courtesy of Daniel Hasegawa)