Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

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)

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)

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)

This is a net-casting spider that 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.

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.

Not All Bees Are Vegetarians: Some Eat Meat

For years we've been taught that wasps are carnivores while bees (which evolved from wasps), are...

Stingless bees in Costa Rica dining on chicken bait. (Photo by Quinn McFrederick of UC Riverside)

Stingless bees in Costa Rica dining on chicken bait. (Photo by Quinn McFrederick of UC Riverside)

Bohart Museum Spotlight on Yellow-Bellied Burying Beetles

When you go to Bodega Bay, you may see giggling young beachgoers playfully bury one another in the...

A carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, from a screen shot of a video by UC Davis doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist.

A carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, from a screen shot of a video by UC Davis doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist.

The Bohart Museum's family arts-and-crafts activity will be to color this drawing of a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, by doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist. (Credit: Tracie Hayes)

The Bohart Museum's family arts-and-crafts activity will be to color this drawing of a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, by doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist. (Credit: Tracie Hayes)

UC Davis Seminar: How This Virginia Tech Researcher Targets Mosquitoes

If you've ever been bitten by a pesky mosquito--who hasn't?--you're hoping researchers will some...

This is a female mosquito, the Asian tiger mosquito, or Aedes albopictus, laying eggs. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This is a female mosquito, the Asian tiger mosquito, or Aedes albopictus, laying eggs. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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