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Top Secret: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Is Really a Praying Mantis
Sorry, contrary to popular opinion and Western lore, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is NOT a...
Giddy-up! Santa, being the jolly ol' gent he is, drives The Red-Nosed Mantis in front of the Davis home of entomologists Robert and Lynn Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Lynn Kimsey)
This praying mantis, photographed in Vacaville, Calif., waits to ambush prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect-Themed Items! Bohart Museum Opens Virtual Gift Shop for Online Sales
If the year 2020 "bugged" you, you're not alone. It certainly did the insect museum,...
Bohart Museum associate Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College who holds a doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, helps customers at the Bohart gift shop in this pre-COVID-19 image. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon checks out a t-shirt in the Bohart Museum gift shop; image taken prior to the COVID-19 precautions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's books, including "The Story of the Dogface Butterfly (Fran Keller, Greg Kareofelas and Laine Bauer)" are shelved in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dragonflies may or may not bring good luck, but dragonfly t-shirts are a popular item in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop.
UC Davis entomology doctoral student and artist Charlotte Herbert Alberts wearing a hoodie she designed that's available for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the back of the hoodie that UC Davis doctoral student Charlotte Herbert Alberts designed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Emma Cluff with a tardigrade (water bear) stuffed animal for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
On the Fly
Flies seem to be in the news a lot lately. But have you ever looking closely at a common green...
A common green bottle fly, Lucilia sericata, seeking nectar on a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The green bottle fly sips some nectar from a tropical milkweed blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flies can be pollinators, too, but they're better known for their forensic, veterinary and medical importance. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a green bottle fly sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A 'Very Poor Year' for Monarchs in Pacific Northwest
It's been a "very poor year" for monarch butterflies in the Pacific Northwest. So, folks, if...
This migrating monarch flew from a vineyard in Ashland, Ore. to a garden in Vacaville, Calif. in 2016. This amounted to 285 miles in seven days or about 40.7 miles per day, according to WSU entomologist David James, who studies migratory monarchs.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A tattered and torn migrating monarch in Vacaville, Calif. This image was taken in 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A newly eclosed female monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A newly eclosed male monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robert Kimsey and Elvira Galvan Hack: Making a Difference
They're making a difference: locally, regionally, nationally and now internationally. If you're...
Forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey in his habitat at Briggs Hall, UC Davis. He received an international award for his academic advising. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elvira Galvan Hack is the winner of an international award for her work in advising undergraduate students in the animal biology major at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
