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The Sting. (c) Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm. The story behind "The Sting" is here: https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7735.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UC DAVIS entomology major Joel Hernandez, a student assistant at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows one of the insect collection kits available in the gift shop. Martha Stewart listed the Bohart Museum insect collection kit as one of the top three gifts to get young naturalists. Hernandez acquired one at age 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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How 'Eco-Cool' Is This?

December 2, 2010
Bugs! Doesn't everybody love 'em? Martha Stewart apparently does. And the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, couldn't be happier.
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PETER BILLINGSLEY, shown here working in Tanzania, will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3 at UC Davis. His talk is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in the Genome Center Auditorium, 1005 Genome and Biological Sciences Facility, 451 Health Sciences Drive.
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Targeting Malaria, Working Toward a.Vaccine

December 1, 2010
It's exciting work, and he'll be at UC Davis to tell us about it. Peter F. Billingsley (right), senior director of Entomology and Quality Systems at Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Md., will speak on "Development of a Mosquito-Derived, Attenuated Whole Parasite Vaccine against Malaria" on Friday, Dec. 3.
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, working in his lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'A Nose for Insects' Sense of Smell'

November 30, 2010
"He is slim and intense, with graying hair and clipped sentences jagged with inflections from his years in Brazil and Japan. And he does not, perhaps cannot, quit.
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BRICKS mark the spot where yellowjackets are nesting at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Hanging Out to Get In

November 29, 2010
They're here. They're there. The Western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica) likes to hang around bee hives. If you're a beekeeper, you've probably seen them nesting in a rodent burrow or hollow log near your hives. At the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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