Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
'Invited' Guests and 'Uninvited' Pests at the Bohart Museum Open House Nov. 19
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts its open house, “Uninvited Guests: Common...
Bohart Museum volunteer Noah Crockette, a high school senior planning a career in entomology, stands by the many items in the museum's gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These are some of the stuffed animal critters available in the gift shop: (clockwise, from left) louse, bed bug, tardigrade, ant and mosquito. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Bohart Museum's butterfly and moth collection, has made these insect collection boxes, available at the gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologists Know How to Party
Entomologists know how to party. They know how to put the "boo" in biology and the "just buggin'...
Bug catchers Wade Spencer (far left) and Brennen Dyer, both entomoogy students, try to net a venomous caterpillar--doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
That's the spirit! From left are Julie Tillman and husband Steve Seybold and their daughter Natalie. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dragonflies! Mother Jeanette Wryskinski (far right) and her son Aren Scardaci with Eve Butler. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert and her fiance, George Alberts, made this tardigrade pinata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey (center), director of the Bohart, cuts the anniversary cake, as Tabatha Yang, public education and outreach coordinator disguised as a wet blanket, assists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey in his ghillie suit with his newfound friend, Quack. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Boy, Bugs, a Birthday and the Bohart
A 12-year-old boy from Mesa, Ariz. with a lifelong interest in bugs, got what he wished for last...
UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer (left) and budding entomologist Ty Elowe of Mesa, Ariz., show their bugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matching pairs of (walking) sticks on Ty Elowe's t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, the Bugs They Saw at the Bohart!
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, hosted an open house showcasing specimens collected...
Jordan Bailey, a student in Fran Keller's class at Folsom Lake College, holds a walking stick for extra credit. At right is Keller, an assistant professor and Bohart associate. She received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Milo Kovet, a student in Fran Keller's class at Folsom Lake College, watches as his daughter, Paschela Kovet, 8, holds a tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Noah Crockette, 17, of Davis, participated on the Belize tour and answered questions from the crowd at the Bohart open house. He won a grant to study beetles in Belize. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A donation to the Bohart: Esther and Gordon Schmierer (center) of Lodi donated Esther's specimens that she collected in 1973-73 while living in Belize. Flanking them are David Wyatt, professor, Sacramento City College, and Fran Keller, assistant professor, Folsom Lake College, who led the collection trip to Belize last summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A young boy peruses a book as a crowd gathers in the Bohart Museum gift shop, which is open year around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These are some of the insects collected during the Belize trip last summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
At the Bohart open houses,there are family activities. Here Echo Valor, 8, of Rio Linda, makes a button with assistance from his mother, Nika Valor. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Her Shoes Are as Magical and Enchanting as Lightning Bugs
She's known fondly as "The Wasp Woman" (wasps are her specialty) and now she may be known as "The...
Lynn Kimsey gets ready to lace up her new shoes, painted with cuckoo wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, wearing the "magic shoes" in her office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)