Posts Tagged: chemical ecology
Breaking News: Zika Virus Found in Wild-Caught Culex
The news is out. It's what they've been searching for. In a groundbreaking discovery, a scientific team of Brazilians and Brazilian-born...
Culex quinquefasciatus, the southern house mosquito,is known for transmitting the West Nile virus, but now the Zika virus has been detected in wild-caught C. quinquefasciatus in Recife, Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika epidemic. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal (front), confers with Constancia Ayres (far right, in black) and Rosângela Barbosa (center), faculty members in the Department of Entomology, Fiocruz-Recife. Both are Leal colloborators.
A Touch of Humor
When chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, was elected to the prestigious Brazilian Academy...
The Walter Leal lab wearing matching t-shirts. See caption at end of the blog. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Walter Leal (back to camera) talking to his lab members. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Equivalent to an Olympic Gold Medal
Walter Leal isn’t participating in the Olympics, but he medaled just the same. It was not for athletic prowess, but for scholarly...
Chemical ecologist Walter Leal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Heaven Scent
Talk about deception. Remember the exciting news article published in November of 2009 in Science Daily about how an orchid species on the Chinese...
Yellowjacket
Heaven-Scent
Whew, that stinks! If you've ever smelled a mosquito gravid trap, you know it's not heaven-scent. This isn't about the aroma of summer roses or the...
Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito laying eggs. (Photo by Samuel Woo, UC Davis)
This container of "smelly" water is being used by UC Davis entomology graduate student Tara Thiemann for her gravid mosquito traps. Gravid traps attract blood-fed mosquitoes ready to lay their eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)