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A Big Cheer for a Crab Spider

What happened in our pollinator garden on June 3 probably would have promoted a standing ovation...

A crab spider nails an agricultural pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A crab spider nails an agricultural pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, June 6, 2016 at 4:37 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: agriculturists (1), beans (5), beetles (24), berries (5), blanket flower (13), cotton (13), Gaillardia (26), Lygus bug (10), Lygus hesperus (4)

Targeting Lygus Bugs

If you've ever grown strawberries, you're probably familiar with what the lygus bug does. This...

Lygus bug (Lygus hesperus) is a major agricultural pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lygus bug (Lygus hesperus) is a major agricultural pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Frances Sivakoff (2), lygus bug (10), Lygus hesperus (4), UC Davis Department of Entomology (97)

Looking for Lygus

Frances Sivakoff knows a lygus bug when she sees one. Sivakoff (right), a doctoral candidate in...

Lygus Bug

LYGUS BUG, a serious pest of such crops as cotton, alfalfa and strawberries, is also commonly found in the garden. This one is on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pest Perch

LYGUS BUG, shown here perched on a Mexican hat flower in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Research Facility, UC Davis, is a serious pest of many crops. It pierces plant tissues, sucking the sap. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 6:37 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Alex van Dam (2), Frances Sivakoff (2), lygus bug (10), Lygus hesperus (4), Robert and Peggy van den Bosch Memorial Scholarships (1)

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Posts Tagged: Lygus hesperus

A Big Cheer for a Crab Spider

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Looking for Lygus

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