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Congrats, UC Davis Bug Team!
"In 1973 Dr. David Gibby of the Washington State University Extension Center started a program to meet the demand for urban horticulture and gardening advice, which has since expanded to all 50 states and 8 Canadian provinces. What is the name of this program?" Know the answer? The UC...
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team of doctoral candidates: Madison Hendrick, Jill Oberski, Erin "Taylor" Kelly and Zach Griebenow. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis faculty)
Victory! Gamesmaster Alix Whitener announced the championship team, the crowd cheered and the champions, the UC Davis Entomology Games Team, responded. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis faculty)
A Tip of the Net to Our UC Davis PBESA Winners
A tip of the net to our trio of UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology award recipients who will be honored when the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA) meets April 10-13 in the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country. Santa Rosa. Medical...
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team is comprised of (from left) Erin "Taylor" Kelly, Madison "Madi" Hendrick, captain Zachary Griebenow, and Jill Oberski.
ESA Entomology Games Are Both Educational and Entertaining
Quick question: "Kleptopharmacophagy, a newly described behavior recently observed in milkweed butterflies, is characterized by adult butterflies feeding on milkweed caterpillars. What type of alkaloids do the adult butterflies presumably gain as a result?" That was one of the questions posed...
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team is comprised of (from left) Erin "Taylor" Kelly, Madison "Madi" Hendrick, Zachary Griebenow and Jil Oberski. Griebenow and Oberski were members of the 2018 national championship team.
Do you know the common name of Hermetia illucens, a dipteran? Black soldier fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What Entomologists Need to Know
If you're a graduate student in entomology and competing with your team in the Entomology Games, a college-bowl type trivia game hosted by the Entomological Society of America, it's not only good to know your insects but you ought to have an interest in sports, crime-fighting insect figures,...
A question about the paranormal figure Mothman drew interest at the Entomology Games, hosted by the Entomological Society of America. (Illustration by Tim Bertelink, Wikipedia)
This is not the Mothman, but an Atlas moth, Attacus atlas, from the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Doctoral Students in Entomology Got It Right
They knew the answer. "A worker honey bee has how many pairs of wax glands on its abdomen?" That would be four, answered the UC Davis Entomology Team did at the Entomological Society of America's Virtual Entomology Games, a college-bowl type of competition formerly...
UC Davis doctoral student Jill Oberski captured this screen shot at the finals. She is top row, second from left.
