Posts Tagged: open house
The Art of Loving Insects: Bohart Museum-Style
Do you like to draw insects? Do you want to meet artists who draw insects? Do you have a tattoo of...
Megan Ma of the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis, is both a scientist and a scientific illustrator. In 2021, she received a National Science Foundation Award, Research Experience for Post-Baccalaureate Students. In June 2021, she received a bachelor's degree in evolution, ecology and biodiversity, with a minor in entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This illustration of a Jerusalem cricket, aka potato bug, by UC Davis student Allen Chew, adorns a Bohart Museum t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How to You Say 'Insect' in the Turkish Language?
How do you say "insect" in the Turkish language? That's a question posed by the Bohart Museum...
At the Bohart Museum of Entomology, Dr. Ismail Seker and his wife, Esin, stand in front of the Turkish flag and a card indicating how to say "insect" in the Turkish language. The Bohart Museum spotlights a global collection of flags, as well as how to say "insect" in many languages. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of fig wasps was among the spotlighted images at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's recent open house on wasps. (Photo by Dr. Ismail Seker, who captured this image in his native Turkey)
Make Way for the Weird and Wonderful Wasps
Meet the "meat bees." Yellowjackets, commonly known as "meat bees," in comparison to the...
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a Western yellowjacket,Vespula pensylvanica, sharing a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, What a (Moth) Night This Will Be! A Conversation With Bohart's Lepidoptera Curator Jeff Smith
Oh, what a (moth) night this will be! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis is...
Entomologist Jeff Smith (second from left), curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, talks to visitors at a recent Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youngsters delight in the blacklighting display as they watch moths land on the UV-illuminated white hanging sheet. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum's blacklighting display is an opportunity for folks to learn about moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Open House: Celebrating the California Dogface Butterfly
What's the story behind how and why the California dogface butterfly was designated as the...
The egg of the California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
The caterpillar or larva of the California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
The chrysalis of the California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
An adult male California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)