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Targeting the Asian Citrus Psyllid

The Asian Citrus Psyllid Team: Scientists in the front row (from left) are Tatiana Mulinari, Rodrigo Magnani, Antonio Juliano Ayres, Walter Leal, Marcelo Miranda, Victoria Esperanca, Odimar Zanardi, and Rejane Luvizotto. The three scientists in back are Haroldo X. L. Volpe (white shirt) Renato de Freitas and Rômulo Carvalho.

A major citrus pest may experience a “Bah, Humbug!” kind of year. If all goes as...

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Posted on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 3:37 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Asian citrus psyllid (2), Brazilian Meeting of Chemical Ecology (1), chemical ecologist (3), citrus greening disease (1), sex pheromone (1), UC Davis (8), Walter Leal (49)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Health Innovation Natural Resources Pest Management

Davis Teen: How Those Pesky Mosquitoes Led to a Scientific Publication

Researcher and lead author Helena Leal, 17, a scholar at Davis High School, injects a sample of odorants trapped in a solid phase micro-extraction syringe intothe gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in the Walter Leal lab at UC Davis. In back are chemical ecologist Walter Leal (right) and UC Davis student researcher Kaiming Tan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Listen to ABC Channel 10 News, broadcast Dec. 22Seventeen-year-old Helena Leal doesn't like...

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Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 6:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: aldeyhydes (1), Culex quinquefasciatus (8), Davis High School (1), Entomological Society of America (11), Helena Leal (1), Justin Hwang (1), Kaiming Tan (1), Mexican-American Yolo County Concilio (1), mosquito research (1), odorants (1), southern house mosquito (2), UC Davis (8), Walter Leal (49)

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 (2), Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (1), chemical ecology (5), Diaphorina ciri (1), Entomological Society of America (11), ntomological Society of Brazil (1), UC IPM (1), Walter Leal (49)

Bodil Cass and 'The Curious Case of Katydids in California Citrus'

Postdoctoral researcher Bodil Cass will speak on

What an interesting and innovative title: "The Ecoinformatics and the Curious Case of Katydids in...

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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 3:22 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bodil Cass (1), citrus (1), fork-tailed katydids (1), Jay Rosenheim (1), katydids (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1), Walter Leal (49)

UC Davis Researcher: What Repellents and Doses Are Best to Prevent Zika Virus

Working on zika-virus research are UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal (foreground) and colleagues and co-authors Rosangela Barbosa (center) and graduate student Gabriel Faierstein of FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, Brazil.

If you're traveling to—or living in--a Zika virus-infested area, it's far better to use DEET...

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Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 2:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Aedes aegypti (8), Constancia Ayres (3), Culex quinquefasciatus (8), mosquitoes (5), Rosangela Barbosa (1), Walter Leal (49), Zika virus (6)

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