Backyard Orchard News
A 'Butterfly Open House' at the Bohart Museum on March 19
It's almost spring. Do you know where your butterflies are? Do you know how to attract them to your...
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas talks to butterfly enthusiasts on a Placer Land and Trust tour looking for the California dogface butterfly, the state insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Framed by hikers, Greg Kareofelas tells the history of the California dogface butterfly, the state insect. This photo was taken on Placer Land and Trust acreage near Auburn. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want to attract monarchs? Plant their larval host plant, milkweeds. Nectar plants? They like Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) and the butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii), among others. This photo shows a monarch on Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want Gulf Fritillaries? Plant their host plant, the passionflower vine. This butterfly is nectaring on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Solano Third Graders Learn the ABC's (of Bugs) from Bohart Museum at Youth Ag Day
Talk about the ABC's! The 3000 third graders who attended the annual Youth Ag Day on Tuesday,...
Tabatha Yang (center) education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks to visitors at the Youth Ag Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Parras McGrath greets the third graders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It was like a photo shoot at the Bohart Museum's booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A wide array of expressions at the Bohart Museum booth. At right are Noah Crockette and Tabatha Yang of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eager third graders ask Parris McGrath if they can hold the Madagascar hissing cockroaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist and Bohart Associate Alex Nguyen answers questions about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Associate Noah Crockette enjoys talking about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Congrats to Shirley Luckhart, Marek Borowiec and Ralph Washington Jr.
When the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America, meets for its 101 annual conference...
Ant specialist Marek Borowiec, who received his doctorate in entomology in June 2016 from UC Davis, studying with major professor Phil Ward, won the PBESA Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity Award. This photo was taken in Madagascar by friend Kimiora Ward.
Third-year graduate student Ralph Washington Jr. of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won the PBESA Student Leadership Award.
William Meikle Seminar: A Case Study With Honey Bees
It promises to be a fascinating talk. Research entomologist William Meikle of the Carl Hayden Bee...
Research entomologist William Meikle of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, USDA-ARS, holding a frame which has a temperature sensor.
William Meikle's research in France included treating colonies with a biocontrol agent to target varroa mites.
Aphids? Bring on the Beetle Mania!
They're back! Have you checked your rose bushes lately? Along with the lush new growth, you'll...
Dorsal view of a multicolored Asian lady beetle on a rose bush. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A lady beetle gobbling an aphid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Peek-a-boo! A lady beetle peers between a folded rose leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lady beetles, where are you? Here's dinner! Aphids use their long slender mouthparts to pierce plant parts and suck the juices. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)