Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
Got an Ant Question? Ask Away at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Got a question about ants? Or other insects? By popular demand, ant specialists (myrmecologists)...
How much do you know about ants? Members of the Phil Ward lab will discuss ants and answer questions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Here carpenter ants (Camponotus semitestaceus) nest in a Vacaville park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet The Ant People (Myrmecologists) from the Phil Ward lab at UC Davis. From left are doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zach Griebenow; graduate student Ziv Lieberman; and alumnus Brendon Boudinot. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee Biologist Lauren Ponisio to Discuss Disease in Plant-Pollinator Communities
You won't want to miss bee biologist Lauren Ponisio's UC Davis seminar on "Disease in...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosenenskii, heads for a California golden poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Addie Abrams Targeting Aphids and Thrips in California Lettuce
Graduate student Adelaine "Addie" Abrams of the laboratory of Extension agricultural...
Adelaine "Addie" Abrams answers questions about agricultural entomology at the 2022 annual UC Davis Picnic Day activities in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Seminars: Two USDA Forest Entomologists to Zero in on Bark Beetles
There's so much to know about bark beetles! How can a tiny insect wreak such havoc in our...
Bark beetles are the culprits in this forest image. USDA forest entomologist Chris Fettig will speak at 4:10 p.m., Feb. 1 on "Bark Beetles: How Tiny Insects Are Transforming Western Forests with a Little Help From Climate Change." (Photo courtesy of Chris Fettig)
UC Davis forest entomologist and doctoral student Crystal Homicz assists in a fire beetle demonstration at a 2018 Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. The fire beetles are in the genus Melanophila and are sensitive to smoke and heat from smoldering trees after a fire. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lisa Chamberland: About Those Ogre-Faced Spiders....
If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral...
UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland studies. (Image courtesy of Lisa Chamberland)
Five members of the Jason Bond lab, including postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland, pose for a photo at the UC Quail Ridge Reserve, Napa County, in 2022. From left are Lacie Newton, Xavier Zahnle, Emma Jochim, Lisa Chamberland and Jim Starrett. Not pictured are the newest lab members Iris Bright and Megan Ma.