Posts Tagged: Briggs Hall
'Show Me the Honey' and 'Show Me the Bugs' at UC Davis Picnic Day
It wouldn't be a picnic without bugs. They are, you know, everywhere. However, when...
There will be lots to see during Picnic Day at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. These butterflies are among the museum's nearly 8 million insect specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A visitor at the Bohart Museum takes an image of a tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and UC Davis professor of entomology, talks to visitors at a UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey tasting is a popular event at UC Davis Picnic Day and is in the running for a special award, determined by popular vote. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Briggs Hall, home of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, draws some 3000 to 4000 visitors during the annual UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Countdown 'til UC Davis Picnic Day
Countdown 'til UC Davis Picnic Day... UC Davis will welcome thousands of visitors Saturday, April...
Lady beetles,commonly known as ladybugs, will be given away by the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program at Briggs Hall on April 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Painted lady butterflies will be part of the Pollinator Pavilion at Briggs Hall. This one is a female. There will be live insects and photographic images. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen bee and her retinue. A bee observation hive will be displayed at Briggs Hall during the April 16th Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is Peaches, a rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pollinator Pavilion: A Prized Exhibit at UC Davis Picnic Day
Pollinator Pavilion. Picnic Day. They go together like honey bees on bee balm and bumble bees on...
Monarch butterfly nectaring on plants inside the 2015 Pollination Pavilion enclosure. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crowds peered through the 2015 Pollinator Pavilion enclosure and then entered excitedly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Let's Have a Picnic!
What's a picnic without bugs? Bugs may be uninvited guests at your family picnic, but at the...
Briggs Hall is a popular place at the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day. This year's Picnic Day is Saturday, April 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Sharon Lawler of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, greets guests at the aquatic display in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smile! A picnicker points her cell phone at a rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is maggot art. Dip a maggot in water-soluble paint, let it crawl around or guide it on a white piece of paper, and voila! Maggot art. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jupiter's Beard Makes the Cut
Clean-shaven it's not. Yet it's a cut above. For bees, syrphids and butterflies, the long-blooming...
A honey bee foraging on Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, also known as a hover fly or flower fly, hovering over Jupiter's Beard. Flies are pollinators, too! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)