Backyard Orchard News
Be Prepared for Changes to the Worker Protection Standard
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) recently published the revised...
'Belize Bioblitz' at the Bohart on Sunday, Sept. 18
The "Belize Biobliz for the Bohart" was an un-believable trip! A group of scientists associated...
An orchid bee heads for wintergreen oil. This photo was taken during the Bohart Museum's collection trip to Belize. (Photo by Fran Keller)
Davis teen Mark deVries (his mother Fran Keller co-led the Belize trip) pins a moth in Belize. (Photo by Fran Keller)
This is a large moth that visited the blacklighting set-up. (Photo by Fran Keller)
The Bohart Museum crew participates on its first hike in Belize, led by Dave Wyatt and Fran Keller. (Photo by Fran Keller)
Sacramento City College professor Dave Wyatt and Folsom Lake College assistant professor Fran Keller, co-leaders of the Belize expedition, show some of the insects collected on the Belize trip. (Photo courtesy of Fran Keller)
Ever Seen a Pink Praying Mantis?
Have you ever seen a pink praying mantis, Stagmomantis californica? No? Now you have. Adrienne...
Davis resident Adrienne Austin-Shapiro photographed this pink praying mantis, Stagmomantis californica, outside a pizza business in Davis.
This is a female Stagmomantis californica, commonly known as a California mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Migrating Monarchs Lovin' the Tithonia
Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover campaigned for "a chicken in every pot and a car in every...
First in series of four photos: Two monarch butterflies meeting in a Tithonia patch in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Second in series of four photos: Two monarch butterflies, one nectaring, one investigating. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Third in series of four photos: Two monarch butterflies interacting in the Tithonia patch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fourth in series of four photos: Two monarch butterflies taking flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet You at the Bohart!
If you've never visited the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, or...
Retired entomologist and Bohart Museum associate Norm Smith engages visitors as he talks about moths at the July 30th Bohart Museum open house. Smith received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis with major professor Richard Bohart, for whom the museum is named. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Nan Rowan of Davis talks to entomologist and UC Davis graduate student Jessica Gillung (foreground) at the open house on July 30. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Selfies are fun to take at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Here Monica Ballard of Rancho Cordova smiles for the camera as an Australian walking stick obliges. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology director Lynn Kimsey oversees the global collection of insects, which numbers nearly eight million. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)