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UC Davis Doctoral Student Jackson Audley: On the Road to Improve Forest Health
Forest health promises to take a turn for the better, thanks to forest entomologists like Jackson Audley, a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis. Audley just received the 2019 Western Forest Insect Work Conference (WFIWC) Memorial Scholarship Award for his research on the...
Jackson Audley (left) with major professor Steve Seybold in front of a dying black walnut tree on E St. in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Good Bug, Bad Weed
Hillary Thomas' biological control research on a leaf-eating beetle that targets saltcedar has scored a bullseye. Thomas, a doctoral candidate in entomology at UC Davis, has received a $15,000 Robert and Peggy van den Bosch Memorial Scholarship to support her research. Saltcedar or tamarix...
Hillary Thomas is studying the saltcedar beetle (Diorhabda elongata): a good bug on a bad weed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Adult saltcedar beetle (Diorhabda elongata), a natural enemy of saltcedar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Larva of saltcedar beetle (Diorhabda elongata) crawls on host plant, saltcedar (Tamarix). D. elongata feeds on the foliage during both its adult and larval stages. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
