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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HONEY BEE pollinating an almond tree at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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CCD: Worldwide Malady

December 7, 2010
Honey bee guru Eric Mussen, Extension apiculturist and a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty, is quoted in a Dec. 6 article in the Epoch Times about colony collapse disorder (CCD).
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BEDBUG--"Bed bugs are small, flat insects that feed on the blood of sleeping people and animals," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "They are reddish-brown in color, wingless, and range from 1 to 7 millimeters in length. They can live several months without a blood meal." (CDC Photo)
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Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite

December 6, 2010
Forensic entomologist Bob Kimsey (right) of the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, studies bedbugs--those little bloodsuckers that prey on you while you're sleeping.
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UC DAVIS entomology major Joel Hernandez, a student assistant at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows one of the insect collection kits available in the gift shop. Martha Stewart listed the Bohart Museum insect collection kit as one of the top three gifts to get young naturalists. Hernandez acquired one at age 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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How 'Eco-Cool' Is This?

December 2, 2010
Bugs! Doesn't everybody love 'em? Martha Stewart apparently does. And the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, couldn't be happier.
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PETER BILLINGSLEY, shown here working in Tanzania, will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3 at UC Davis. His talk is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in the Genome Center Auditorium, 1005 Genome and Biological Sciences Facility, 451 Health Sciences Drive.
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Targeting Malaria, Working Toward a.Vaccine

December 1, 2010
It's exciting work, and he'll be at UC Davis to tell us about it. Peter F. Billingsley (right), senior director of Entomology and Quality Systems at Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Md., will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3.
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