Posts Tagged: Parasitoid Palooza
A Teaching Moment
How do you get your point across if you're trying to explain what a "parasitoid" is? Well, if...
Wide-eyed Ethan Fry, 5, and his sister Adi Fry, 7, of Davis, listen to graduate student Charlotte Herbert at the "parasitoid" balloon station at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ethan Fry, 5, of Davis, inflates a balloon at the "parasitoid" balloon station. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ready for Parasitoid Palooza II? Bohart Museum Open House on Sunday, Jan. 10
If you've ever tried to rear monarch butterflies, you may have encountered a caterpillar...
A wasp parasitizing aphids. These wasps are from the family Aphidiinae. (Photo by Fran Keller)
What's It Like to Be Parasitized?
What's it like to be parasitized? Say you're a caterpillar or an aphid and a wasp comes along and...
A wasp (family Aphidiinae) parasitizing an aphid. (Photo by Fran Keller, who received her doctorate in entomology this year from UC Davis.)