Posts Tagged: CC Edwards
Bohart Museum to Spotlight Household Vampires at Sept. 23rd Open House
Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice and bed bugs will be featured when the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
A female Culex tarsalis. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
A blood-fed Aedes aegypti. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
UC Davis transfer student Hanna Briggs holds a sample card showing how glitter mimics small insects. Briggs is an intern in the laboratory of Jason Bond, who is the Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Household Vampires Want Your Blood
What do you think of when someone mentions "household vampires?" Fleas? Ticks? Bed bugs?...
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. (Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)