Iqbal Pittalwala

The author is a senior public information officer at the University of California, Riverside.

[Medical Entomology] Reality Bites

Study rules out spiders as common cause of bacterial infections in humans.

[Stinging Insects] Wasp Species Named After UC Riverside

Entomologist Serguei Triapitsyn discovered a wasp from the Russian Far East, and named it Gonatocerus ucri.

[Mosquito Control] Working to Find DEET Alternatives

University of California, Riverside research has implications for controlling insect-borne diseases worldwide.