Bug Squad

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.

Honey bee guru Eric Mussen, Extension apiculturist and a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty, is quoted in a Dec. 6 article in the Epoch Times about colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Forensic entomologist Bob Kimsey (right) of the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, studies bedbugs--those little bloodsuckers that prey on you while you're sleeping.

Talk about deception.

Bugs! Doesn't everybody love 'em? Martha Stewart apparently does. And the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, couldn't be happier.