Bug Squad

A daily (M-F) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008 and about the wonderful world of insects and those who study them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary suns itself on a zinnia in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Last of Its Generation

November 28, 2024

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Look, over there! It's Thanksgiving Week and there's a newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary on a tattered pink zinnia "that looks as it has seen better days," as my mother used to say. The orange of autumn exploding, the silver of yultide beckoning. Silver and bold...

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UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)

Bruce Hammock and 'Why Science Is Full of Surprises'

November 27, 2024

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of incredible research in the news.

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Inga Zasada, who received her doctorate in plant pathology in 2002 from UC Davis and is now a research plant pathologist with USDA-ARS, will present a seminar on Dec. 2 in 122 Briggs Hall.

UC Davis Alumna Inga Zasada to Present Dec. 2nd Seminar on Nematodes

November 26, 2024

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

UC Davis doctoral alumna Inga Zasada of the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Ore., will return to her alma mater on Monday, Dec.

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Standing behind the ESA motif are UC Davis doctoral candidates Christofer Brothers, CC Edwards and Lexie Martin.

Outstanding Group of UC Davis Graduate Students at ESA Meeting

November 25, 2024

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Graduate students with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology excelled at the recent Entomological Society of America meeting in Phoenix.

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At the Entomological Society of America meeting, doctoral candidate Mia Lippey (right) takes a selfie with Bodil Cass, former postdoctoral scholar in the lab of UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor Jay Rosenheim. Lippey won a coveted President's Prize for her presentation, "A Big Data Approach to Characterizing Impacts of Climate Warming on Agricultural Arthropod Populations."

Congrats to Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman, UC Davis Entomology Doctoral Candidates

November 22, 2024

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Congrats to two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology doctoral candidates: Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman.

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