Posts Tagged: UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology
Go West, Young Monarch, Go West!
Westward, ho! The western migration of the Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to their...
A male Monarch nectaring on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of the Monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Monarch gets ready for flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tiger by the Tail? Not This Time!
Don't look now, but a garden spider almost grabbed a tiger by the tail. The tiger? That would be...
Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, nectars on a zinnia, unaware of the danger lurking below. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of garden spider tucked beneath the petals. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pop Goes the Pieris
Pop goes the Pieris. So wrote professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and...
Professor Art Shapiro with his newly found cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the first cabbage white butterfly found this year in the three-county area of Solano, Sacramento and Yolo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)