Posts Tagged: ESA
ESA Entomology Games Are Both Educational and Entertaining
Quick question: "Kleptopharmacophagy, a newly described behavior recently observed in milkweed...
The UC Davis Entomology Games Team is comprised of (from left) Erin "Taylor" Kelly, Madison "Madi" Hendrick, Zachary Griebenow and Jil Oberski. Griebenow and Oberski were members of the 2018 national championship team.
Do you know the common name of Hermetia illucens, a dipteran? Black soldier fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How Termites 'Looking for Love' Landed in the News
What a year! Termites seem to be capturing the interest of more folks than usual. First, emeritus...
A winged termite ready for flight as another termite waits. This image was taken Oct. 27 in Vacaville, Calif.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These subterranean termites have just emerged from the soil in a Buck Avenue yard, Vacaville, on Oct. 27. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robert Michael Pyle: The Face of Insect Conservation
Robert Michael Pyle, founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, was right at...
Scholar, writer, biologist and educator Robert Michael Pyle visiting the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology lepidoptera collection in July of 2019. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bob Pyle locates Magdalene alpine butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robert Michael Pyle (far right) at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. From left are Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology; Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas and entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Art of the Ant
We're used to admiring street art that showcases such iconic insects as lady beetles, dragonflies...
Street art usually focuses on such insects as bees, butterflies and dragonflies, but at Vacaville's Ulatis Creek Park, someone affixed this carpenter ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
See the carpenter ant (foreground at right) on the bridge pillar of the Ulatis Creek Bridge, Vacaville? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Doctoral Students in Entomology Got It Right
They knew the answer. "A worker honey bee has how many pairs of wax glands on its...
UC Davis doctoral student Jill Oberski captured this screen shot at the finals. She is top row, second from left.