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The Frit and the Fly: Who Wins?
The Frit and the fly...or the butterfly and the fly... That would be the Gulf...
The syrphid fly tries to seek some nectar, but the Gulf Fritillary proclaims "This Mexican sunflower is occupied." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The butterfly begins to spread its wings as the syrphid edges closer to the nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The butterfly spreads and flattens its wings. The syrphid does not move. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Maybe if come around from a different direction!" the fly seems to say. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Ah, all mine!" proclaims the fly. "I scared off the butterfly." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lindcove REC Western Weather Monitoring
Lindcove Research and Extension Center has a weather monitoring station connected to the Western...
Insects and Graduate Students Share Spotlight at Linnaean Games
Where are you most likely to encounter a rheophilic insect? If you know the answer to that, you...
These three graduate students in the Phil Ward lab at UC Davis are among the members of the UC Berkeley-UC Davis Linnaean Games Team. From left are Zachary Griebenow, Jill Oberski and Brendon Boudinot. Boudinot, president of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association, was a member of both the UC Davis national championship teams in 2015 and 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Picture This: A 5x6-Foot Ruby-Tailed Wasp at Bohart Museum
Picture this! A 5x6-foot ruby-tailed wasp! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, welcomes the new addition, a microsculpture of a ruby-tailed wasp by Levon Biss of London. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Those Iconic Monarchs: Treats on Halloween and Every Other Day
It's Halloween and scores of trick-or-treaters are donning monarch butterfly costumes. But...
A newly eclosed monarch, ready to take flight. This image was taken on Sept. 24, 2018 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spreading her wings on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia), the newly released Monarch is about to take flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch sips nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)