Posts Tagged: Briggs Hall
Let's Have a Picnic!
What's a picnic without bugs? Bugs may be uninvited guests at your family picnic, but at the...
Briggs Hall is a popular place at the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day. This year's Picnic Day is Saturday, April 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Sharon Lawler of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, greets guests at the aquatic display in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smile! A picnicker points her cell phone at a rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is maggot art. Dip a maggot in water-soluble paint, let it crawl around or guide it on a white piece of paper, and voila! Maggot art. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jupiter's Beard Makes the Cut
Clean-shaven it's not. Yet it's a cut above. For bees, syrphids and butterflies, the long-blooming...
A honey bee foraging on Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, also known as a hover fly or flower fly, hovering over Jupiter's Beard. Flies are pollinators, too! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Learn How to Make an Insect Collection--Online and During UC Davis Picnic Day
So, you want to make an insect collection? How do you begin? Where do you start? Distinguished...
If you're interesting in collecting insects, stop by Briggs Hall on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to learn how to make an insect collection. Here a leafcutter bee is targeting a Gulf Fritillary butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology associate Jeff Smith spreads the wings of a tiger moth, Ctenucha rubroscapus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Honey of a Day, a Honey of a Picnic
It promises to be a "honey of a day" and a "honey of a picnic" at the 101st annual UC Davis Picnic...
Beekeepers like to sample honey fresh from a comb. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene of last year's honey tasting event at Briggs Hall. That's Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, now retired, staffing the table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey, Let's Go Honey Tasting!
Want to sample some honey? How about almond, yellow starthistle, leatherwood, cultivated...
Fish-eye view of the honey tasting at Briggs Hall during the UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Evan Marczak of Davis samples honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Briggs Hall will be busy on Saturday, April 12 during the annual campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)