Bug Squad

Move over, "Twelve Days of Christmas.

The long-awaited book on biodemography is about to be published and it's incredible. Distinguished professor James R.

John Henry Comstock would be proud. At each annual meeting, the Entomological Society of America (ESA) presents the prestigious John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award to six outstanding graduate students, one from each branch of the ESA.

If you're attending college and don't have a good advisor, then you haven't met Elvira Galvan Hack and Robert Kimsey.

When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus, you're likely to see spots. That would be the Indian domino cockroach, Therea petiveriana, also variously called the desert cockroach or seven-spotted cockroach.