Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum of Entomology
Quick, Get Your Camera Ready! There's a Wasp!
Quick, get your camera ready! There's a wasp! Ever heard anyone say that? We remember capturing...
A European paper wasp, Polistes dominula, has just shredded a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar and is about to take the prey to her colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A beewolf, a crabronid wasp, lands on a buckwheat blossom, unaware it's occupied by a praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum: How to Make a Paper Wasp Nest
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house on "Social Wasps" from 1 to 4...
The makings of a European paper wasp nest in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A fully occupied European paper wasp nest on a Vacaville fence. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beer for a Butterfly? No Winner Yet!
As of today, Jan. 17, no one has won the Beer-for-a-Butterfly contest sponsored by butterfly guru...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, sipping nectar on catmint (Nepeta). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wasps: Fascinating Insects But Often Demonized
If you hate wasps, and brush them off as just "uninvited guests at my picnic," take another...
A honey bee and a Western yellowjacket meet on a rose at a UC Davis bee garden. Both are pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A foraging European paper wasp, Polistes dominula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The antennae of the European paper wasp are orange. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The antennae of the Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, are black. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Larry Snyder Sharing Images of 'Insects at the Ditch'
They crawl, they fly, they flutter, they buzz. They look at us, and we look back. But if you're...
This is one of the images of monarchs that Davis resident Larry Snyder took at the North Davis Channel.
A tachnid fly grooming in the morning sun at the North Davis Channel. (Photo by Larry Snyder)
Two Engytatus varians share a tarweed flower. (Photo by Larry Snyder)