Posts Tagged: water
For the Record: Congress Honors Bruce Hammock
You may have missed it during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. House of...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock in his Briggs Hall office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gotcha! UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock gets doused at a water balloon battle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emily Bick: Salinity, the Water Hyacinth and a Weevil
If that heavy growth of water hyacinth in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in central California...
This is the giant water bath created from a leftover evaporative cooler from the Michael Parrella lab.
The water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, is an invasive weed but has an attractive flower. (Photo by Wouter Hagens, Wikipedia)
Why More Water Bears Are Heading for the Bohart Museum of Entomology
The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, which houses one of the largest collections of water...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with part of the museum's tardigrade collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The proposed water bear sculpture at Bohart Museum of Entomology. The Bohart Museum Society has set up a go-fund-me account.
Oh, for a Water Bear Sculpture at the Bohart Museum!
If you can picture a huge water bear (tardigrade) sculpture gracing the entrance to the Bohart...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with part of the tardigrade collection. The Bohart collection includes some 25,000 slide-mounted specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart collection includes some 25,000 slide-mounted specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology Gift Shop: 'Tis the Season for Water Bears
Move over, teddy bears. There's a new bear in town to covet, cuddle and cherish--a water bear or...
Entomologist Eliza Litsey, who received her bachelor's degree in entomology this year from UC Davis, shows some of the water bears (tardigrades) available in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here's looking at you. Water bears in the Bohart Museum of Entomology are soft and cuddly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect-themed t-shirts are popular in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop, especially during the holiday season. This is entomologist Eliza Litsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon checks out the insect-themed shirts at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (back), who curates the Lepidoptera section at the Bohart Museum, handmade these pens, available in the gift shop. With him is Robert Michael Pyle of Grays River, Wash., founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's insect-themed books are great gifts for budding entomologists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Butterflies, dragonflies and lady beetles (lady bugs) adorn the t-shirts at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)