Posts Tagged: stick insects
A Little Sticktoitiveness
Well, it did what it was supposed to do. It walked. When Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart...
A stick insect in the process of molting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stick insect, or walking stick, makes the rounds at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bohart Museum visitor gently touches a stick insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Special Day for the Parasitoids and Walking Sticks
American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author E.O. Wilson once said: "(We have)...
UC Davis doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung shows a stick insect to brothers Elliott Bren, 12 (foreground) and Liam Breen, 14. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stick insect maneuvers toward 12-year-old Elliott Bren of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Australian walking stick munches on a eucalyptus leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sisters Zia Tinel, 8, and Olivia Tinel, 4, of Davis engage in the family craft activity: making pop-up cards starring monarchs and parasitoids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang, Bohart Museum education and outreach coordinator, shows dung beetles to the Huang siblings (from left) Amy, 6, Julie, 4, and Alex, 3, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matan Shelomi: Each Answer to a Question Creates New Questions
Think about this: You don't know until you try. You miss every opportunity you do not...
World traveler and scientist Matan Shelomi, wearing a Bohart Museum of Entomology shirt at at the Reichstag in Berlin.
Matan Shelomi heads to the podium to deliver his seminar on his stick insect research. At right is major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Assistant Professor Matan Shelomi: He'll Introduce You to His Stick Insect Research
Ever ask someone where they live and they respond "I live in the sticks"? They're referring to a...
Matan Shelomi, who received his doctorate in entomology at UC Davis and his bachelor's degree at Harvard, will return to the UC Davis campus on Wednesday, Nov. 15 to deliver a seminar on his stick and leaf insect research.
This is the insect that entomologist Matan Shelomi studies: the stick insect, order Phasmatodea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Charlotte and the Walking Stick: A New Hair Barrette
The thing about walking sticks is that they walk. They don't skip, run, or gallop. They walk. And...
Graduate student Charlotte Herbert, who is seeking her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, has a visitor in her hair--a stick insect barrette. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
George Alberts of Los Angeles points to a "barrette" in the hair of his friend, UC Davis entomology graduate student and Bohart volunteer Charlotte Herbert. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)