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Behind the scenes of the entomological activities at Briggs Hall, #ucdavis Picnic Day. Doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski is coordinating everything from Roach Races to Maggot Art. #Picnic Day is Saturday, April 23. bit.ly/3xPBtoK

This postdoc position is still available. Please apply if you are interested in working on symbiont community assembly with Alison and me.

At UCD's picnic day, folks from my lab and myself highlighted some of the ways pests affect agriculture in California (and gardens) and the natural enemies (lady beetles, lacewings, hover flies, parasitoids) that help us out.

Adult+larval lady beetles are always a good show since many don't know what the larvae look like OR that they eat aphids too. No photos of the many attendees to respect privacy, but the room was PACKED and there was a constant flow of people coming in to learn about insects.

Many kudos to the department's many grad students for running exhibits and running the show, especially Danielle Rutkowski for leading!

Thanks for the invitation to share our work with you all! Great comments and ideas for future work, much appreciated!

Congrats Lexie on passing the ENT departmental exam!!!

Remembering Dr. Eric Mussen, 1944-2022, #ucdavis. He was a giant in the world of apiculture. He served as an #Extension apiculturist for 38 years and was a valued member of our faculty. The tributes are pouring in. We are heartbroken. #honeybees bit.ly/3zi9Jdi

Third in our #sagehenpride series we’ll talk about flowers!! 🌼🌸🌻🌺💐✨ The Sagehen basin has tons of plant diversity- our iNaturalist project documents HUNDREDS of flowering plant species including one of my favorites, the western columbine (Aquilegia formosa, pictured here)

We @cornellento are hiring a Senior Extension Associate who will focus on 🐝Beekeeping🐝! This position/person will interact with beekeepers via the Master Beekeeper program and develop educational programming--- more info and instructions here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21891 McArt Lab

I am hiring a postdoc along with 木lessandro Ossola to investigate effects of heat on tree function across 3 US cities: Raleigh, Sacramento, and New Orleans. We love trees (evidence below). Davis is a fun place to work, too! Apply here before July 1: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05024

We are recruiting a new postdoc researcher. We are using the genetic variation in Botrytis cinerea as a tool to investigate the evolution of plant immunity across the rosids and asterids and ascertain what mechanisms are really most important. Info here recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05063

Seed dispersal by hornets facilitated by odors that mimic herbivore-damaged leaf odors 🤯doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Who is gold and fuzzy with green eyes, smells like perfume, drinks nectar and can’t even sting? The male Valley carpenter bee🐝 — affectionately known as the “teddy bear”🧸 bee. 👀Meet him and his better half in #DeepLook’s new video: bit.ly/CarpenterBeesYT

UC Davis is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Microbiology. Please RT

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-fe…

New review paper out now on bee-fungi associations with Rachel Vannette and Makena Weston. We discuss some common fungal associations and their impacts on bees, and highlight how much there is to learn still about these interactions! doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Congrats Jake!!