Pest Management
Bug Squad
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They Met the Mantids--and Scores of Other Critters
They met the mantids, walking sticks, beetle-mimicking roaches, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, tarantulas, silkworm moths, a butterfly, a dozen caterpillars and a chrysalis. It was a great day to get acquainted with insects and arachnids and learn how...
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Silkworm Moths Draw Widespread Interest at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
Interest in silkworm moths soared high at the recent UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on “Arthropod Husbandry: Raising Insects for Research and Fun.” Silkworm moth expert İsmail Şeker, a Turkish medical doctor and author of a...
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Nobody Said Mother Nature Is Perfect
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.--Simon Sinek How true. That applies...
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A Good Day on the UC Davis Campus
Today was a good day on the University of California, Davis, campus. The National Academy of Inventors announced that two of our faculty members are fellows: Walter Leal, distinguished professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and former...
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Jackson Audley: Targeting the Walnut Twig Beetle
Doctoral candidate and forest entomologist Jackson Audley of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, targets an invasive bark beetle that's about the size of a grain of rice. The beetle? The walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis. In...
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