Wasp Found in Upstate New York Shows Up in Southern California
Discovery by entomologist Serguei Triapitsyn strongly suggests the wasp is well established in the country.
View ArticleEntomologist to Weigh In on Bee Documentary
UC Riverside’s Douglas Yanega will share his views on bee behavior following the screening of the award-winning film "Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" in downtown Riverside on April 20.
View ArticleEntomologist Names New Wasp Species After UC Riverside
UC Riverside's Serguei V. Triapitsyn discovered several tiny female fairyflies, or mymarid wasps, 1.1 to 1.2 millimeters in body length, that he has named Gonatocerus ucri.
View ArticleUCR Entomologist Attends Meeting of International Authority Governing Animal...
Douglas Yanega attended the most recent meeting of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, held Nov. 17-20 in Singapore, whose broad agenda was how the commission could reinvent itself.
View ArticleUndergraduate Discovers New Firefly Species
In May 2015, UC Riverside undergraduate Joshua Oliva discovered a new species of firefly near Topanga, Calif.
View ArticleThe Top: Nine Scariest Southern Californian Bugs
This week, in honor of all things creepy and crawly for Halloween, we talked to Doug Yanega, UCR Entomology Research Museum's senior museum scientist, to list the scariest bugs one can find in Southern...
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