The 15th Annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday, Feb. 21 and featuring 12 museums or collections across campus,  is a "Super Science Day" where you watch a carnivorous plant eat a fly,  pet a stick insect, photograph a bald eagle, time-travel two billion years, stare down a T. rex, learn how to plant a pollinator garden, try your hand at flintnapping, laugh at yeast jokes, and take home seed cookies for the pollinators. 

There’s so much to do and see that those attending the 15th Annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 21 shouldn't try to visit all 12 museums and collections within the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. time frame, but single out several.

"We recommend you decide on several museums and collections and concentrate on them," said committee chair Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator.

Salk Institute plant molecular biologist and assistant professor Lena Müeller of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, La Jolla, will speak on "Control of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Symbiosis by Peptide Hormones" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

Her seminar is at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom at https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

A lepidopterist and a herpetologist walk into a bar. 

 A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, goes, too.

That's exactly what happened on Wednesday, Feb. 4, when the co-winners of the 2026 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest celebrated with beer and conversation at a Davis bar.

The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is sponsoring a series of five hands-on screen-printing workshops taught by celebrated artist, muralist, printmaker and activist Jos Sances of Berkeley.

Sances, an internationally renowned artist, will teach the screen-printing workshops from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 28, March 1, March 7-8 and March 15 in the Labudio,  located in Rooms 126-142 of the Environmental Horticulture Building, UC Davis campus. (The word, "Labudio," is coined from laboratory and studio.)

UC Davis doctoral alumna Cindy Kron, North Coast Area Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Advisor, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), will present a Feb. 4th seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology  on "Adventures of the North Coast Extension Entomologist."

Kron's seminar is at 12:10 p.m. in 122 Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.

Entomologists in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and alumni are newly announced recipients of three major awards from the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA).

Medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, won the Distinguished Teaching Award. He now will be considered for the national award, sponsored by the Entomological Society of America (ESA).  

Professor Lark Coffey, a virologist in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, will speak on "Reemerging St. Louis Encephalitis Virus in the Western United States and Fitness Dynamics in California Culex" at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Wednesday, Jan. 28.

The 15th annual campuswide UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free and family friendly event set Saturday, Feb. 21 and encompassing 12  museums and collections,  needs financial donations.

“Anything helps,” said chair Tabatha Yang, the education and outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Professor Louie Yang, a community ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be the speaker at the Pacific Coast Entomological Society (PCES) meeting, set for 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 24 in Room 122 of Briggs Hall.

Yang, whose research encompasses monarchs and milkweed, will discuss  “Why I Study Insect Ecology in the Field."