Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Entomology
Host and a Parasite: Battle of Sand Field Crickets vs. Horsehair Worms
If you were a sand field cricket, you would not like horsehair worms. "The horsehair worm...
A sand field cricket (Gryllus firmus), and a horsehair worm (Paragordius varius). (Photos courtesy of Amy Worthington)
How House Flies Are Trading Antibiotic Resistance Genes Among Themselves
If you're curious about house flies and the latest research on antibiotic resistance, you won't...
A house fly feeding. (Photo courtesy of USDA-ARS)
Good News All Around
Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumna and researcher Cindy McReynolds and UC Davis...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, chief scientific officer and chairman of the board of EicOsis Human Health LLC. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene at the Sacramento Region Innovation Awards program when EicOsis was named winner of the medical and health/biopharmaceutical category. Pictured is William Schmidt, Ph.D., of EicOsis. (Photo courtesy of Robb Wright)
Undergrad Thesis Scores the Cover of Environmental Entomology
It's not every day that an undergraduate thesis makes the cover story of a professional...
A screen shot of Grace Horne's work that appears in the current edition of the journal Environmental Entomology.
Kyle Lewald of Joanna Chiu Lab: Targeting the South American Tomato Leafminer
If you love tomatoes, you hate any and all pests that attack them. That would include the larvae...
Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)