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Tiny Bug, Big Trouble, Great Science

You may have never seen this tiny bug that's causing big trouble. But agriculturists and...

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzuki, on a raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, September 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: agricultural pest (4), Christine Tabuloc (4), Drosophila suzukii (12), Frank Zalom (60), Joanna Chiu (37), spotted-wing drosophila (5), SWD (3)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Pest Management

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)

Larvae of Tuta absoluta, a South American tomato leafminer, damaging a tomato leaf. (Photo courtesy of A. Mussoll)

Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 5:24 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: agricultural pest (4), Joanna Chiu (37), Kyle Lewald (3), tomato leafminer (1), Tuta absoluta (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (762)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Pest Management

Beleaguered Bee, Crazy Ant

It's a crazy world out there. Now our beleaguered honey bee has a new foe: the Rasberry crazy...

Safe and Secure

THIS HONEY BEE, sipping water from a leaf, is safe and secure--but not if hordes of Rasberry crazy ants find her. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Death by Crazy Ants

THIS PHOTO, posted on Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/, shows Rasberry crazy ants killing honey bees.

Hive Invasion

RASBERRY CRAZY ANTS invading a bee hive and killing ants. (Photo from Tom Rasberry's blog at http://crazyrasberryants.blogspot.com/.)

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 at 6:08 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: agricultural pest (4), Rasberry crazy ants (1), Tom Rasberry (1)

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Posts Tagged: agricultural pest

Tiny Bug, Big Trouble, Great Science

Kyle Lewald of Joanna Chiu Lab: Targeting the South American Tomato Leafminer

Beleaguered Bee, Crazy Ant

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