Posts Tagged: Scott Carroll
'Witchetty Grubs’ Featured at UC Davis Seminar on Oct. 7

When Myfany Turpin of the University of Sydney speaks at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's virtual seminar...
Witchetty grub (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)
Myfany Turpin's work on insect larvae.
Myfany Turpin: Virtual Seminar on 'Grub's Up

Grub's up! Grub? Food? Yes, think specifically of insect larvae. Myfany Turpin of the University of Sydney will speak on...
These are the larvae that Myfany Turpin of the University of Sydney will discuss at a virtual seminar to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
UC Davis Researcher and Colleagues Target 'Billion-Dollar Pest'

If you like corn, you should be concerned about a pest that's known as "the billion-dollar beetle." The Western corn rootworm is called...
This image by Keith Waldron shows rootworm damage. The corn rootworm is a billion-dollar pest.
Rootworm larvae. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia Creative Commons)
The Western corn rootworm ravages cornfields across the nation. This image was taken in Franklin, Pa. (Photo by Fishhawk of Flickr, Creative Commons)
UC Davis Evolutionary Biologist: About Those Out-of-Place Species

What, hippos thriving in Colombia? Yes! If you've been reading The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic,...
Introduced species and nearest neighbors, an illustration in PNAS.
Why They're Cautioning: 'Use Antimicrobials Wisely'

UC Davis evolutionary ecologist Scott Carroll and colleagues are on a mission. When the United Nations meets Sept. 21 in New York, they want the UN...
The malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Evolutionary ecologist Scott Carroll and colleagues point to a World Health Organization paper indicating that malaria is one of the diseases that "can no longer be cured with many older antibiotics or medicines." (Photo by Anthony Cornel, UC Davis)