Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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UC ANR is renovating its website. 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/blogcore/archive.cfm

Thomas Sparks, recipient of Entomological Association of America's 2021 Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology.

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Congrats to Tom Sparks, Recipient of ESA's Nan-Yao Su Award

August 18, 2021

Congrats to biological chemist and green pesticide developer Thomas Tom Sparks, winner of the Entomological Association of America's 2021 Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology. ESA announced the award today.

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UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal organized the symposium and served as one of the three co-hosts. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Stars and Rising Stars Brighten International Insect Olfaction/Taste Symposium

August 17, 2021

"I'm very grateful to Walter (Leal) for inviting me to light the inaugural torch for this international celebration of research on insect chemical senses with over 1400 registered participants which is absolutely unprecedented for our field.

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Cheryl Veretto was first in line to take the California Master Beekeeper Program practical test administered in September 2016. With her is UC Davis research associate Charley Nye, CAMBP examiner and manager of the Laidlaw facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Master Beekeeper Cheryl Veretto: She Loved Bees, Plants and People

August 16, 2021

Cheryl Veretto was the first to step forward. She and 51 other beekeepers had gathered that day in September 2016 at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis to undergo testing to become California Master Beekeepers at the apprentice level.

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Find the praying mantis! It's on the showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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A Memo to a Mantis

August 13, 2021

Dear Ms. Mantis, We see you. You're trying to camouflage yourself, but we see you. You're hanging out on a showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, trying to catch a butterfly or a bee.

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Hammock lab alumnus, Guodong Zhang, associate professor in the University of Massachusetts' Department of Food Science, is the recipient of the Foods 2021 Young Investigator Award. He is shown here in the Hammock lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Guodong Zhang, a Rising Star from the Bruce Hammock Lab, Wins Interntionial Award

August 12, 2021

Congratulations are in order! Associate professor Guodong Zhang of the University of Massachusetts' Department of Food Science and a former UC Davis postdoctoral scholar advised by UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, has just been named the recipient of the Foods 2021 Young Investigator...

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