Bug Squad

What a novel idea! UCD vs. UCD! One is the University of California, Davis, or UCD. The other: University College Dublin, or UCD. Just add "UCD vs. UCD Biochemistry Games," and you get a friendly global rivalry between undergraduate biochemistry students at the two universities.

If you're curious about how a fungus can turn an ant into a zombie, you'll want to hear what researcher Charissa de Bekker of the University of Central Florida (UCF) has to say about them.

As a presidential candidate, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders visited the UC Davis campus in 2016. He's back--not as a presidential candidate but as a meme. A meme? It all started when photographer Brendan Smialowski for Getty Images photographed him at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Oh, to find a butterfly in January. Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, knows where they are. As mentioned in a previous Bug Squad blog, he spotted a cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on Jan.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminars for the winter quarter are underway, beginning today (Jan.