Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Amazing Story About What Entomologist Lynn Kimsey Recorded in San Francisco Bay 50 Years Ago
Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're...
Lynn Siri (far right), now UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey, laughs with her sister, Anne, as their mother, Jean Siri, tries on a skull.
To Be an Underwing Underfoot
You can be an understudy or you can be an underwing. Or underfoot. Have you ever seen...
An underwing moth, maybe a Catocala amatrix, with tattered wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Do Moths Usually Land with Their Wings Down?
National Moth Week ended last Sunday, July 25, but questions linger. A reader asked: "A friend was...
An alfalfa looper moth, Autographa californica, foraging on mustard. Moth identified by Art Shapiro of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
John "Moth Man" De Benedictus (far right) shows visitors the blacklighting system at a Bohart Museum Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) discusses the difference between moths and butterflies at a Bohart Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oak Honey? To 'Bee' Sure
This is not something you see every day. When Lynn Kimsey, director of the UC Davis...
Honey bee licking a baby acorn. (Photo by Lynn Kimsey)
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)