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.

The cancer research was based in the laboratories of physician-researcher Dipak Panigrahy (left) of Harvard Medical School and UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. They are shown here at a recent conference.

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Harvard, UC Davis and Ionova Researchers: Hammock Lab Drug May Help Pancreatic and Liver Cancer Patients

October 4, 2021

(This news blog is affiliated with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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Ecologist and research scientist Maria Silvina Fenoglio (shown here on a green roof) will present a virtual seminar, hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, on "Do Green Roofs Benefit Urban Arthropod Communities? Evidence from a South American City," at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 6.

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Ecologist from Argentina to Give UC Davis Virtual Seminar on Arthropods and Green Roofs

October 1, 2021

A green roof, commonly described as "living roof" or "a vegetative or eco-roof," is an increasingly popular installation on a wide range of buildings.

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This is part of the Bohart Museum of Entomology collection that will be gifted to Atatürk University, Turkey. (Bohart Museum photo)

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A Welcoming Gift from the Bohart Museum to Atatürk University, Turkey

September 30, 2021

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is helping to spread the biodiversity of insects.

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Human hibernation and longevity will be the topic of UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey's quest for research papers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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An Entomologist's Novel Idea: He'll Pay for Equivalent of 'Term Papers'

September 29, 2021

Have you ever written a well-researched A-plus term paper and commented "I wish I could have been paid for that!" Well, now you can. A UC Davis professor will pay you--if you're a top-notch UC Davis student--to write (the equivalent of) a "term paper." UC Davis distinguished professor James R.

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A territorial male bee, Melissodes agilis, targets a monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in July 2020 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Seen Any Monarchs Lately?

September 28, 2021

Seen any monarchs lately? No, not the British royal family: the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

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