Backyard Orchard News
Fun at the Fair with Entomologists and Insects
If fair time is fun time--and it is--just add insects to make it even more fun. Entomologists from...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the butterfly and moth specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, enjoys showing insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Madagascar hissing cockroaches are "a huge hit with kids," says entomologist Jeff Smith of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology graduate student Charlotte Herbert will be tabling an activity at the Dixon May Fair on Saturday, May 12. She recently showed scorpions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Under a black light, scorpions fluoresce. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's more fun than an arthropod? Two arthopods! Pictured are a spider, a rose-haired tarantula--and an insect, a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gary Felton Seminar: How Plants Turn on Their Anti-Herbivore Defenses
How do plants defend themselves from herbivores and turn on their defenses? Professor Gary Felton,...
The adult moth, Helicoverpa zea. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Congratulations, Louie Yang, NACADA's Top Faculty Academic Advisor
Congratulations to community ecologist Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and...
Community ecologist Louie Yang is the recipient of an international award for his academic advising. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Other Critters Will 'Share the Love' at California Honey Festival, Too!
It's not just honey bees that will "share the love" Saturday, May 5 at the second annual California...
Not just honey bees will be featured at the California Honey Festival. The Bohart Museum will show scores of bee specimens, including the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spiders will draw attention at the California Honey Festival. A UC Davis class will discuss how spiders hunt. This is a cellar spider that nailed a honey bee and is wrapping it for later consumption. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum of Entomology's display of bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Honey Festival: Bee-ing All It Can Bee
You may not be able to get close enough to take a selfie with a honey bee foraging on your flowers,...
Miss Honey Bee, Benji Shade of Woodland Christian High School, takes a selfie with her teacher, Jessica Hiatt at the inaugural California Honey Festival in downtown Woodland. This year's festival is Saturday, May 5.
Sometimes you can't get close enough to get a selfie of a bee foraging in flowers, such as this pollen-packing bee on lupine. But at the California Honey Festival, you can get photos of yourself with Miss Honey Bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)