Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page Knows How to Answer This Question
If you ask honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. what his favorite honey is, he'll point to...
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. poses with his wife Michelle (right) and Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at a 2022 ceremony honoring him as the recipient of the CA&ES Distinguished Emeritus Award. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. checks out a honey bee swarm.
Robert E. Page Jr. as a graduate student at UC Davis, with his mentor and later colleague, Harry Laidlaw Jr.
This decorative sign fronts the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. This is where Laidlaw and his graduate student, Rob Page--and later his colleague--worked. Artist Donna Billick of Davis created this sign. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Host and a Parasite: Battle of Sand Field Crickets vs. Horsehair Worms
If you were a sand field cricket, you would not like horsehair worms. "The horsehair worm...
A sand field cricket (Gryllus firmus), and a horsehair worm (Paragordius varius). (Photos courtesy of Amy Worthington)
How House Flies Are Trading Antibiotic Resistance Genes Among Themselves
If you're curious about house flies and the latest research on antibiotic resistance, you won't...
A house fly feeding. (Photo courtesy of USDA-ARS)
Good News All Around
Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumna and researcher Cindy McReynolds and UC Davis...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, chief scientific officer and chairman of the board of EicOsis Human Health LLC. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene at the Sacramento Region Innovation Awards program when EicOsis was named winner of the medical and health/biopharmaceutical category. Pictured is William Schmidt, Ph.D., of EicOsis. (Photo courtesy of Robb Wright)
Undergrad Thesis Scores the Cover of Environmental Entomology
It's not every day that an undergraduate thesis makes the cover story of a professional...
A screen shot of Grace Horne's work that appears in the current edition of the journal Environmental Entomology.