Backyard Orchard News
Congratulations, Robbin Thorp!
You may have heard that native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology...
Robbin Thorp with two books he co-authored in 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Robbin Thorp with students from The Bee Course. He is in the third row (far right, standing).
Bee Course instructors from 2013 are (from left) Laurence Packer, York University, Toronto; Terry Griswold, USDA Bee Lab, Logan UT; Steve Buchmann, Tucson, AZ; Robbin Thorp; John Ascher, University of Singapore; Jim Cane, USDA Bee Lab, Logan, UT; Eli Wyman, American Museum of Natural History, NY. Not pictured: Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., AMNH, Course Leader who was unable to participate that year.
Just a Matter of Time
It was just a matter of time. It was just a matter of time before the so-called "super mosquito"...
Medical entomologist Laura Norris (right side of table, second from top) works with a night's catch of mosquitoes in Mali.
UC Davis medical entomologist Anthony Cornel (left) emerges from a hut in Mali.
Entomologist Helping Humankind
He is an EHH: Entomologist Helping Humankind. Bruce Hammock a distinguished entomology professor...
Entomologist Bruce Hammock in his office in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Umm, Where's the Bee?
If there's one thing that entomologists hate, it's journalists who mistake a fly for a bee. To...
A drone fly, Eristalis tenax (left), and a syrphid fly. They're from the same family, Syrphidae, and are often mistaken for honey bees.. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee collecting pollen. Lower right: a freeloader fly.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a syrphid fly, aka flower fly or hover fly. Note the setae or bristle on the head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's It Like to Be Parasitized?
What's it like to be parasitized? Say you're a caterpillar or an aphid and a wasp comes along and...
A wasp (family Aphidiinae) parasitizing an aphid. (Photo by Fran Keller, who received her doctorate in entomology this year from UC Davis.)