Posts Tagged: research

No Suds for a Bug in 2021

No suds for a bug in 2021.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic precautions, butterfly...

The Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest won't take place this year, but the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, will still be around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest won't take place this year, but the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, will still be around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Davis Botanical Society Grant Winners: 'How I Spent My Field Season'

You've heard of New York Times' best-selling author, Mark Teague, and his book, "How I Spent My...

Doctoral student Shawn Christensen will present "Nectar Microbes Induce Pollen Germination to Access Scarce Nutrients" at the Davis Botanical Society meeting on Nov. 19. (Photo by Shawn Christensen)

Doctoral student Shawn Christensen will present "Nectar Microbes Induce Pollen Germination to Access Scarce Nutrients" at the Davis Botanical Society meeting on Nov. 19. (Photo by Shawn Christensen)

The Importance of Museum Collections

We're glad to see the importance of museum collections mentioned in the newly published UC Davis...

UC Davis emeritus professor Hugh Dingle, wearing a Bohart Museum t-shirt, and then doctoral student Micah Freedman, did monarch research on Guam.

UC Davis emeritus professor Hugh Dingle, wearing a Bohart Museum t-shirt, and then doctoral student Micah Freedman, did monarch research on Guam.

Former UC Davis doctoral student Micah Freedman tending his milkweed in a UC Davis greenhouse, where he reared monarchs for research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Former UC Davis doctoral student Micah Freedman tending his milkweed in a UC Davis greenhouse, where he reared monarchs for research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

'Ant Man' Brendon Boudinot Off to Do Research in Germany

It's off to Germany for ant specialist Brendon Boudinot. And what an honor and an...

Ant specialist Brendon Boudinot doing field work at the Southwest research station in the Chiricahua Mountains near Portal, Ariz. (Photo by Roberto Keller, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Portugal)

Ant specialist Brendon Boudinot doing field work at the Southwest research station in the Chiricahua Mountains near Portal, Ariz. (Photo by Roberto Keller, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Portugal)

Brendon Boudinot reacts after listening to a question at the Entomological Society of America's Linnaean Games, now the Entomology Games. (ESA Photo)

Brendon Boudinot reacts after listening to a question at the Entomological Society of America's Linnaean Games, now the Entomology Games. (ESA Photo)

How a Student's 'A' Term Paper Went on to Win a Campuswide Competition

This is a story about how a student's "A" term paper in an entomology professor's went on to win a...

UC Davis fourth-year student Jessica Macaluso stands next to artist Robert Arneson's egghead sculpture in front of Mrak Hall. She will receive her bachelor's degree in psychology this fall.

UC Davis fourth-year student Jessica Macaluso stands next to artist Robert Arneson's egghead sculpture in front of Mrak Hall. She will receive her bachelor's degree in psychology this fall.

Vincent Pan, who is doing research in the lab of ecologist Rick Karban, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won second place in the science, engineering and mathematics category of the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research.

Vincent Pan, who is doing research in the lab of ecologist Rick Karban, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won second place in the science, engineering and mathematics category of the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research.