Posts Tagged: Allan Jones
The Lovely Ladies at the Laidlaw
So far, so good. The three queen bumble bees (Bombus melanopygus) we found buzzing around our...
The three queen bumble bees (Bombus melanopygus). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bumble bee expert and UC Davis emeritus professor Robbin Thorp checks the trio. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Is There a Better Camouflage Than This?
Robbin Thorp saw it first. Talk about an eagle eye. Thorp, a native pollinator specialist and...
Larva of an emerald moth, Synchlora, disguised in florets. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Larva of an emerald moth, Synchlora, on Robbin Thorp's finger. (Photo by Robbin Thorp)
Davis photographer Gary Zamzow (far left); native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp (center), emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, and Davis photographer Allan Jones in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Oh, Is This One of Your Bees?'
The photo just begs for a caption. The praying mantis, with a female sweat bee grasped in its...
What are you looking at? A praying mantis, with a female sweat bee grasped in its spiked forelegs, looks at the camera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis continues to eat the sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)