Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Bohart Museum of Entomology Banner Draws Praise
A newly created, unveiled banner for the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 75th anniversary drew...
Christine Melvin's art work, transformed into a banner for the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 75th anniversary, features a hover fly, sphecid wasp, snake fly, bumble bee, aphid, twisted wing parasite and a tardigrade (water bear).
Close-up of a drawing of a sphecid wasp by Christine Melvin.
Close-up of a drawing of a snake fly by Christine Melvin.
In Celebration of the Bohart Museum's 75th Year
So much is happening at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California,...
As part of Aggie Pride Week or Spirit Week, the Bohart Museum displayed some of its insect specimens.
Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, shows some of the displays to a visitor.
Bohart Museum of Entomology: A Need to Raise Funds for Traveling Display Boxes
Oh, how popular they are. If you've ever seen youngsters jumping up and down in pure delight--and...
Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator, shows a display of insects at a Vacaville Public Library event. The Bohart is in need of traveling display boxes and is raising funds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Alex Nguyen, a UC Davis alumnus, volunteered at the 2017 Solano County Youth Ag Day held at the Solano County Fairgrounds for third-graders. These are some of the traveling display boxes the Bohart uses. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youngsters at the 2017 Solano County Youth Ag Day delighted in seeing the traveling display boxes of insect specimens. Here Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator, talks to the third graders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Would You Eat a Chocolate-Covered Cicada?
Would you eat a chocolate-covered cicada? Yes? No? Maybe? Entomophagy is no problem for...
Sampling a chocolate-covered cicada snack are (from left) Maxwell Arnold, Brennen Dyer, Iris Bright, Amberly Hackmann, and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All Hail the Lady Beetles!
Step right up, folks! I'm a lady beetle, aka ladybug, and it's lunch time. Or maybe it's...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, munches on an aphid, as another aphid looks as if it's waiting its turn to be eaten. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The larva of a lady beetle will also eat its share of aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)