Bug Squad

 If you're a beekeeper interested in learning how to rear queen bees, this is for you!The UC California Master Beekeeper Program (CAMBP) is offering an in-person Queen-Rearing Techniques Short Course (QRTSC) on Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31 at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee…

 "I'm ecstatic," said internationally renowned bee scientist Robert E. Page Jr.,  when hearing this morning that he's a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).So are we! And so well deserved. UC Davis and Arizona State University (ASU) colleagues are among those…

 You've heard of "Mommy and Me" photos, right?Well, let's add bugs: "Mommy and Me--and Bugs!" Or "Daddy and Me--and Bugs!"That's was basically the scenario when  UC Davis and UC Health System employees and their offspring visited the Bohart Museum of Entomology for the campuswide event, "Take…

 Can a honey bee participate in a maggot art activity?Yes, it can.  And yes, it did.When the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) hosted its annual maggot art activity in the Briggs Hall courtyard during the 112th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, a worker bee seemed to want to join in…

 "Mosquitoes are considered to be the deadliest animals on Earth because the diseases they transmit claim at least a million human lives every year globally."So wrote a young mosquito researcher in his research publication, "Linking Mosquito Ecology, Traits, Behavior, and Disease Transmission,"…