Posts Tagged: insects
'A' Is for Arthropods, 'B' Is for Biodiversity Museum Day
If you attended the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day last Sunday, March 6 in the...
Insect enthusiast James Heydon (front) and scientist Ben Maples (back), a UC Davis entomology graduate who works at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, show insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Sunday, March 6 during the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hands cradled stick insects in the Bohart Museum of Entomology/Jason Bond lab booth at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ever held a millipede? It was the first time for many visitors at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. The millipede exhibits were from the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
BioDivDay: Can't Wait to See You!
BioDivDay is Sunday. March 6 at the UC Davis Conference Center: Can't wait to see...
The wonder of a stick insect, aka walking stick, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A juvenile root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) penetrates a tomato root. (USDA Photo, Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Ode to an Earwig
A winter pollinator garden does not buzz with bees; it crawls with earwigs, ants, roly-polys, and...
This earwig was beneath a garden sculpture in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Image by UC Davis Alumnus Ian Wright Appears in ESA World Calendar
The 2022 Entomological Society of America's World of Insects Calendar is filled with amazing...
In this award-winning image, a cuckoo bee, Nomada sp.(left), and an Anthophora bee share honey on a twig. The work of Ian Wright, it was selected as a September (inset) image in the ESA's World of Insects calendar. (Copyrighted Photo by Ian Wright)
Ian Wright, a UC Davis alumnus and a research specialist at UC Riverside, is shown here with some of his winged specimens.
Covers of some of the ESA calendars, from 2017 to 2022.
'Entomological Giant' Frank Zalom Receives Highest ESA Honor
He's a giant in his field--a veritable Sequoia in the flatlands. But he's an entomologist with an...
Frank Zalom, UC Davis distinguished professor and a past president of the Entomological Society of America, is a newly elected Honorary Member of the Entomological Society of America, the highest honor afforded an ESA member. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Frank Zalom, a former 16-year director of the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, examines an almond tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)