Bug Squad

It's a stunning piece of work. It's a three-dimensional paper sculpture of a queen bee. Noted artist Marilyn Judson (right) of Davis created the paper sculpture (below) now on display in the "Sticky Business: Art of the Honey Bee" show that runs through Dec. 23 at the Pence Gallery, 212 D St.

It's a honey of a book. Honey bee expert Norman Gary, emeritus professor of apiculture at the University of California, Davis, is the author of a newly published book on beginning beekeeping titled Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees.

One of the highlights of the 58th annual Entomological Society of America meeting in San Diego, Dec. 12-15 is the Linnaean Games.

Nature is more a world of scents than a source of noise. That quote sound familiar? Chemical ecologist Jacques Le Magnen (1916-2002) said that back in 1970.

Those malaria mosquitoes may have met their match--with researchers at the University of California, Davis. UC Davis entomology doctoral candidate Ashley Horton, recent winner of the 2010 Arthur J. and Dorothy D. Palm Agricultural Scholarship, focuses her research on how mosquitoes transmit malaria.