Backyard Orchard News
Bohart Museum Open House: From Wasps to Nematodes to Flies to Pop-Up Cards
Want to learn about such parasitoids as nematodes, jewel wasps, small-headed flies and tachinid...
Lauren Camp, diagnostic parasitologist at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, will display nematode specimens at the Bohart open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum will display jewel wasps and answer questions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home!
Ladybug! Ladybug!Fly away home.Your house is on fireAnd your children are gone. How many...
A lady beetle positions itself on a tropical milkweed leaf, poised for flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All systems go! The lady beetle opens its elytra, revealing its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ready for liftoff? This lady beetle is good to go. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And we're off! The lady beetle spreads its wings and is off. Photos taken with 105mm lens on Nikon D500; ISO 2000; shutter speed, 1/1000, and f-stop 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Parasitoid Palooza! Or What Ate My Caterpillar or Chrysalis
So you're trying to rear monarch butterflies. You notice an egg on your milkweed plant, and watch...
This monarch chrysalis is filled with tachinid fly larvae, about to emerge. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tachinid fly larva emerges from a monarch chrysalis. It will turn brown, harden, and become a pupa--and eventually, an adult tachinid fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Assistant Professor Matan Shelomi: He'll Introduce You to His Stick Insect Research
Ever ask someone where they live and they respond "I live in the sticks"? They're referring to a...
Matan Shelomi, who received his doctorate in entomology at UC Davis and his bachelor's degree at Harvard, will return to the UC Davis campus on Wednesday, Nov. 15 to deliver a seminar on his stick and leaf insect research.
This is the insect that entomologist Matan Shelomi studies: the stick insect, order Phasmatodea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bee Is a Bee Is a Bee...
Remember that line in Gertrude Stein's 1913 poem, Sacred Emily: "A rose is a rose is a...
One's a fly and one's a bee. Can you tell them apart? Honey bee on the left: syrphid fly on the right. They're nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not a bee. This is a bee fly, genus Villa. It's nectaring on Mexican sunflower, genus Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)