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Celebrating the Crab Spider in Arachtober
It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October is THEIR month. Let's especially applaud crab spiders when they prey on such agricultural pests as the lygus bug, also known as the "western...
A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bee and the Lygus Bug
Ever seen a beneficial insect and a pest sharing the same blossom? At a recent visit to the UC Davis Ecological Garden at the Student Farm, we watched a honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a lygus bug nymph, Lygus hesperus, foraging on a batchelor button, Centaurea...
A honey bee and a lygus bug sharing a batchelor button in the UC Davis Ecological Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The honey bee edges closer to the lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The insects meet, the honey bee, the beneficial insect, and the lygus bug, the pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emily Bick's AAUW Grant: Targeting the Lygus Bug
Watch out, lygus bugs! Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick is targeting you. Lygus hesperus, a serious pest of strawberries--as well as cotton, and seed crops such as alfalfa--causes an estimated $40 million in annual losses to California's strawberry industry. Bick, who received her doctorate...
Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick doing field work in Denmark before the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic precautions..
Emily Bick (right) in an engagement photo with her fiance, Nora Forbes. Bick is an agricultural entomologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Lene Sigsgaard at the University of Copenhagan and Forbes is a statistician at the Danish Medtronic office.
A Big Cheer for a Crab Spider
What happened in our pollinator garden on June 3 probably would have promoted a standing ovation from agriculturists who grow cotton, strawberries, sugarbeets, tomatoes, beans, safflower, potatoes, and other crops. A crab spider nailed a major pest, a lygus bug, Lygus hesperus. It's something you...
A crab spider nails an agricultural pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Targeting Lygus Bugs
If you've ever grown strawberries, you're probably familiar with what the lygus bug does. This major agricultural pest is one of the causes of those cat-faced strawberries you see in your garden or in the field. Cat-faced? Think misshapened, deformed or irregularly shaped berries. Catfacing...
Lygus bug (Lygus hesperus) is a major agricultural pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
