Bug Blog
A Push to Protect Pollinators
A United Nations' organization today issued a global pollinator health report and the news was not good. The two-year global assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on a blackberry blossom. (Photo by KathY Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee pollinating a tangerine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why the Water Bear Is So Unusual
Imagine you're a tardigrade, aka water bear or moss piglet. You're microscopic but you're nearly indestructible. You can survive being heated to 304 degrees Fahrenheit or being chilled for days...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows a stuffed animal, a tardigrade, available in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dengue: Yes, You Can Get It Again
Medical entomologists are learning more and more about Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that prefers human blood. The mosquito transmits the Zika virus, currently "the" hot medical...
Aedes aegypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that prefers human blood. (CDC Photo)
Hear the Buzz!
If you're anywhere near an almond orchard, you've probably heard the steady buzz. That's the soothing sound of honey bees gathering food for their colony--and in the process, pollinating...
A honey bee heads toward almond blossoms on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee doesn't need to be told where to go and what to do. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Both pollen and nectar await the honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tribute to Medical Entomologist Bill Reisen
He lives and breathes mosquitoes. He's a medical entomologist through and through. So when UC Davis medical entomologist and emeritus professor William "Bill" Reisen, internationally known for his...
AMCA President Kenneth Linthicum (left), director of the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, presents the Meritorious Service Award to medical entomologist William Reisen. (Photo by Rick Duhrkopf)
Medical entomologist William Reisen water-testing mosquito habitats near Lahore, Pakistan in 1976