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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VERN BURTON, 85, relaxes at his home in Davis. He worked in the University of California system for 38 years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Thirty Eight Years in the UC System

January 27th, 2010
Vern Burton didnt set out to become an entomologist. Home from the World War II battlefields, he enrolled in Compton Community College and then the University of California, Berkeley. A family friend promised him a job in his termite control business once he finished his studies.
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GRADUATE STUDENTS James Harwood (shown) and Amy Morice, who study with major professor James Carey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, devote their lunch hours to Webcasting the departmental seminars. Here Harwood readies the equipment prior to a seminar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Predator and the Prey

January 26th, 2010
If you've ever wondered about the relationship between predator biodiversity and herbivore suppression, that subject is on tap Wednesday, Jan. 27 at UC Davis.
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SUSAN COBEY (far left), bee breeder-geneticist and manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, with a recent class on queen bee-rearing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What Makes a Beekeeper?

January 25th, 2010
What makes a beekeeper? A research team from the Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., wants to know. Led by Wendy Schweigert, Ph.D.
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal works in his lab in the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Blood Banquets

January 22nd, 2010
Human blood--it drives mosquitoes wild. Today Marlene Cimmons of the National Science Foundation (NSF) spotlights chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology, University of California, Davis, on the LiveScience Web site.
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HONEY BEE moves through salvia (sage). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Two Pressing Questions

January 21st, 2010
Its raining in northern California like the proverbial cats and dogs--and all the more reason to think of vacations.
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