Bug Squad

 Children of UC Davis and UC Davis Health System employees learned about the birds and the bees (and other pollinators) at the recent Take Our Children (TOC) to Work Day, hosted by the UC Davis Bee Haven. The sights and sounds captivated the special visitors: honey bees buzzed, Western tiger…

 A powerful biological tool for targeting mosquitoes?UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Lyna Ngor of the UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will discuss "Exploring Flower-Mediated Wolbachia Transmission: A Self-Sustaining Approach to Mosquito-Borne Disease Control" at the UC…

 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…