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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)
A Good Day for a Praying Mantis
It was a good day for a praying mantis. It was not a good day for a honey bee. Here's what...
A gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, dines on a honey bee in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Targeting the Mexican Fruit Fly and Other Tephritid Pests
California citrus growers, especially those who grow grapefruit, hate this...
The Mexican fruit fly is a serious pest of grapefruit and mango.
It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day! And what better day than a Friday to post an image of a syrphid fly...
A syrphid fly foraging on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
No 'Assassination' Today!
No assassinations today! But an "assassination attempt." There it was, a leafhopper assassin...
An assassin bug, Zelus renardii,waits to ambush prey on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A longhorned bee arrives for some nectar while the assassin bug watches in apparent anticipation. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The longhorned bee leaves only its shadow behind. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This assassin bug had more luck--or better ambushing skills. It nails a pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
