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In Case You Missed It....We Have a Winner in Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest!

This is the first-collected cabbage white butterfly of the year in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano. It's the winner of the Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest and the winner is Professor Art Shapiro! (Photo by Sherri Mann of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology)

In case you missed it...we have a winner in the 2018 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, sponsored by Art...

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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2018 at 5:23 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (3), cabbage white butterfly (2), Pieris rapae (2), UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology (1), UC IPM (29)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources Pest Management Yard & Garden

Redhumped Caterpillar: Aptly Named

Redhumped caterpillars on a Western redbud tree in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How appropriate are many of the common names of insects! Take the immature form (caterpillar) of...

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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Entomological Society of America (2), redhumped caterpillar (1), UC IPM (29), UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (9), Western redbud (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Pest Management Yard & Garden

They Hop and They Suck!

Two leafhoppers sharing a black sage leaf in Vacaville, Calif. They are Typhlocybinae leafhoppers, Eupteryx decemnotata, according to Robert Lord Zimlich of BugGuide.Net. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You've seen them. You've seen them hop. They're aptly named. Leafhoppers are tiny insects (family...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at 6:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: black sage (1), Eupteryx decemnotata (1), leafhoppers (1), Salvia mellifera (1), Typhlocybinae leafhopper (1), UC IPM (29), UC IPM Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (1), Verbena (1)

A Butterfly for a Beer! Or Suds for a Bug!

A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on catmint in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A butterfly for a beer? Suds for a bug? The annual “Butterfly for a Beer” contest,...

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Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 11:30 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (3), Beer for a Butterfly (1), cabbage white butterfly (2), Pieris rapae (2), UC Davis (1), UC IPM (29)

Ground-Breaking Research: Sex Pheromone of Asian Citrus Psyllid Discovered

This is the Asian citrus psyllid, a mottled brown insect about 3 to 4 millimeters long, or about the size of an aphid. Widespread throughout Southern California, it is now found in 26 of the state's 58 counties. (CDFA Photo)

The Asian citrus psyllid, the most devastating threat to the worldwide citrus industry, may have...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 6:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Asian citrus psyllid (1), Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (1), chemical ecology (1), Diaphorina ciri (1), Entomological Society of America (2), ntomological Society of Brazil (1), UC IPM (29), Walter Leal (1)

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