Posts Tagged: UC Riverside
Not All Bees Are Vegetarians: Some Eat Meat
For years we've been taught that wasps are carnivores while bees (which evolved from wasps), are...
Stingless bees in Costa Rica dining on chicken bait. (Photo by Quinn McFrederick of UC Riverside)
UC Davis Entomologists Honored in PBESA Award Competitions
Breaking news: UC Davis entomologists won three of the 12 student and professional awards given by...
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UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo is the recipient of Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology Award from the Pacific Branch, Entomological of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis undergraduate entomology major Gwen Erdosh of the Louie Yang lab and a member of the Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology, won the inaugural Dr. Stephen Garczynski Undergraduate Research Scholarship.
Simon 'Niels' Groen: How Predators Can Feed on That Highly Toxic Milkweed
"Scientists now understand how certain animals can feed on picturesque, orange monarch...
These are some of the illustrations that Niels Groen will use at his UC Davis seminar.
Image by UC Davis Alumnus Ian Wright Appears in ESA World Calendar
The 2022 Entomological Society of America's World of Insects Calendar is filled with amazing...
In this award-winning image, a cuckoo bee, Nomada sp.(left), and an Anthophora bee share honey on a twig. The work of Ian Wright, it was selected as a September (inset) image in the ESA's World of Insects calendar. (Copyrighted Photo by Ian Wright)
Ian Wright, a UC Davis alumnus and a research specialist at UC Riverside, is shown here with some of his winged specimens.
Covers of some of the ESA calendars, from 2017 to 2022.
These Microscopic Parasitic Nematodes or Round Worms Spit Venom
Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with...
A scanning electron micrograph of a nematode, a Steinernema carpocapsae, spitting venom. (Image by Adler Dillman)