Posts Tagged: Fran Keller
Ag Pests, Spiders, and California Dogface Butterflies Stealing the Spotlights
Want to learn more about those insect pests that ravage our crops? Curious about spiders and their...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, devouring oleander aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crab spider devours a lygus bug, an agricultural pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum: Learn about California's State Insect on UC Davis Picnic Day
Quick, what's the California state insect? You may know that the California grizzly bear (Ursus...
This is the female California dogface butterfly, photographed by Greg Kareofelas, a Bohart Museum of Entomology asociate.
This is a California dogface butterfly eclosing from its chrysalis. (Reared and photographed by Greg Kareofelas)
This is the cover of the children's book, "The Story of the Dogface Butterfly," written by Fran Keller, now a professor at Folsom Lake College. Images are by Keller and Greg Kareofelas, and illustrations by Laine Bauer.
The Bohart Museum's popular live "petting zoo" also will be featured at the UC Davis Picnic Day. Here youngsters hold Madagascar hissing cockroaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Monarchs also will be featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on UC Davis Picnic Day. Jeff Smith curates the lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Golden Year for the California Dogface Butterfly, But Questions Remain
If insects could celebrate, the California dogface butterfly would be celebrating the 50th...
Greg Karefelas (left), an associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shares his expertise of the California dogface butterfly with Rob Stewart of the TV program, "Rob on the Road."
California Dogface Butterfly: What the Fire Did
You've probably seen California's state insect, the California dogface butterfly, on a...
Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, walks up Gates Canyon in this image, taken in 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Memorable Interview with E. O. Wilson
This is the story about an entomologist, a rhino, a woodpecker and E. O. Wilson. Back in May of...
Former UC Davis graduate student Fran Keller, now a professor at Folsom Lake College, met E. O. Wilson in May of 2005. She interviewed him for a presentation at the 2005 Entomological Society of America meeting.