Bug Squad

The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm. The story behind "The Sting" is here: https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7735.

Three nematologists kept busy at their booth at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. In front is coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor, and his doctoral students Pallavi Shakya (nearest him) and Alison Coomer. In the back (far right) is Rob Blundell, not part of the lab, but who assisted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Nematode Booth Wows Crowd at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

March 11, 2022

Nematodes! The display of nematodes (aka "roundworms") at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center, drew scores of curious visitors. Many were dog owners with an interest in heartworms.

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A squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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UC Davis Scientists Weigh in on 'The Plight of the Pollinators'

March 10, 2022

UC Davis scientists weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited by Jocelyn Anderson.

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UC Davis Entomologists Honored in PBESA Award Competitions

March 9, 2022

Breaking news: UC Davis entomologists won three of the 12 student and professional awards given by the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America. The award-winning trio: Medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo received the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award.

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Insect enthusiast James Heydon (front) and scientist Ben Maples (back), a UC Davis entomology graduate who works at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, show insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Sunday, March 6 during the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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'A' Is for Arthropods, 'B' Is for Biodiversity Museum Day

March 8, 2022

If you attended the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day last Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Room or took a side trip to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you may have gone home humming "A" is for arthropods. Or "B" is for Biodiversity Museum Day.

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Nematodes use tricks to modulate plant development, says Professor Melissa Mitchum of the University of Georgia's Department of Pathology. She will present a virtual seminar March 9 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Mitchum)

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Melissa Mitchum: Those Tricky Nematodes

March 7, 2022

You can't teach an old dog new tricks? Well, how about nematodes? They can do "tricks," too. Professor and plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum of the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, willpresent the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

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