Posts Tagged: diseases
Bee Biologist Lauren Ponisio to Discuss Disease in Plant-Pollinator Communities
You won't want to miss bee biologist Lauren Ponisio's UC Davis seminar on "Disease in...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosenenskii, heads for a California golden poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Symposium to Target Zika, West Nile and Other Vector-Borne Diseases
They'll target Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya and other vector-borne diseases. The annual UC Davis...
This is Aedes aegypti, also known as "The Yellow Fever Mosquito." It transmits Zika and other viruses. (CDC Photo)
Why Vector-Borne Diseases Remain a Key Threat to Human Health
"Vector-borne diseases remain a key threat to human health, wildlife, and plants, in part, due to...
This Culex mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, transmits West Nile virus and other viruses. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tribute to Medical Entomologist Bill Reisen
He lives and breathes mosquitoes. He's a medical entomologist through and through. So when UC...
AMCA President Kenneth Linthicum (left), director of the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, presents the Meritorious Service Award to medical entomologist William Reisen. (Photo by Rick Duhrkopf)
Medical entomologist William Reisen water-testing mosquito habitats near Lahore, Pakistan in 1976
Our Bees Deserve The Best
This is National Pollinator Week and what better time to post some bee wisdom from Cooperative...
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (now emeritus, shows visitors the inside of a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Extension apiculturist (now retired) Eric Mussen explains bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Inside the hive: the queen bee goes about laying eggs as worker bees tend to her needs and the needs of the colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)