Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
Emily Bick's AAUW Grant: Targeting the Lygus Bug
Watch out, lygus bugs! Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick is targeting you. Lygus hesperus, a...
Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick doing field work in Denmark before the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic precautions..
Emily Bick (right) in an engagement photo with her fiance, Nora Forbes. Bick is an agricultural entomologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Lene Sigsgaard at the University of Copenhagan and Forbes is a statistician at the Danish Medtronic office.
Olivia Winokur: Newly Selected Fellow of Professors for the Future
She's an doctoral student in entomology now, but look for Olivia Winokur to be a professor...
Olivia Winokur, who researches Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, is the co-author of research published in several journals, including PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Her first first-author paper, “Impact of Temperature on the Extrinsic Incubation Period of Zika Virus in Aedes aegypti” was just published in March. (CDC Photo of Aedes aegypti)
Good Morning from a Sleepy Bumble Bee
Benjamin Franklin reportedly said: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,...
A bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, commonly known as a "black-tailed bumble bee," awakens on a Spanish lavender in a Vacaville park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Good morning! The Bombus melanopygus peers over a Spanish lavender in a Vacaville park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Time to forage! The Bombus melanopygus peers investigages a Spanish lavender in a Vacaville park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This Hover Fly Engages in Identity Theft
The wonderful world of insects... Have you ever seen a syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, that...
A hover fly that's a bumble bee mimic: this is Volucella bombylans complex. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The hover fly, a Volucella bombylans complex, departs its perch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a fly; not a bee! Side view of the syrphid fly bumble bee mimic, Volucella bombylans complex. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, investigates a pansy. This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Two Outstanding Entomology Graduating Seniors at UC Davis
Congratulations to Annaliese Wargin and Garrett Keating, two outstanding graduating seniors in...
This is the device that Annaliese Wargin designed and built for her bumble bee research project. (Photo by Annaliese Wargin)
This is the bee, Osmia lignaria, that Garrett Keating studies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)