It's a story that no one is letting him forget. Noted medical entomologist Robert "Bob" Washino, emeritus professor of entomology and a veteran academic administrator at UC Davis, was hanging out in his back yard in Davis last spring when an aedine mosquito bit him.

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Highly Successful Biodiversity Museum Day

February 21st, 2017

They saw bugs. They saw bones. They saw honey bees. They saw hawks. Those were just a few of the offering at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Saturday, Feb. 18. More than 3000 visitors checked out the offerings. The free family-friendly, science-based event, held from 9 a.m.

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Five Reasons Why All This Rain Is Bad for Almond Pollination Season

February 20th, 2017

It's not a good time to be a California almond grower or a beekeeper. And it's definitely not a good time to be a honey bee.

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KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin

February 17th, 2017

It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart Museum of Entomology and its parent organization, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

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UC Davis Researcher: What Repellents and Doses Are Best to Prevent Zika Virus

February 16th, 2017

If you're traveling toor living in--a Zika virus-infested area, it's far better to use DEET rather than Picaridin and to use higher, rather than lower, doses of DEET because lower doses do not work well with older mosquitoes, newly published research from the University of California, Davis and Reci...

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