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Flies, Maggots and Forensic Entomologists at Bohart Museum on Sunday, July 9

A male flesh fly (Sarcophagidae)

Do you know the importance of maggots? Have you ever wanted to talk to a forensic entomologist?...

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Posted on Monday, July 3, 2017 at 6:21 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bob Kimsey (3), Bohart Museum open house (4), forensic entomology (1), Lynn Kimsey (188), maggot art (1), Martin Hauser (3), Tabatha Yang (43)

Best Sentence Collection: Stings Happen When Bees Are 'Aminated and Antagonistic'

An unusual image of a honey bee sting. Note the stinger embedded in the wrist and the honey bee pulling away, its abdominal tissue trailing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

"Killer bees can pursue people for more than a quarter mile when they are animated and antagonistic...

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Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 3:59 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bed bugs (3), best sentences (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (117), honey bees (3), Lynn Kimsey (188), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (4)

The Lady Beetle and the Syrphid Fly

A large syrphid fly, Scaeva pyrastri (as identified by Martin Hauser of the California Department of Food and Agriculture), heads for a lady beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So, here I am, an Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis) perched on a rose bush in Vacaville,...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 4:38 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: aphids (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (117), California Department of Food and Agriculture (2), CDFA (1), honeydew (1), Lynn Kimsey (188), Martin Hauser (3), Scaeva pyrastri (1), syrphid fly (1), UC Davis (7)

The Beauty of a Carpenter Bee's Wings

Iridescent wings of a female Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta. The bee is nectaring on showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, but she's the one putting on a show. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

There's an old saying applicable to child-rearing: "First you give them roots, and then you give...

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Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (117), Lynn Kimsey (188), Robbin Thorp (18), showy milkweed (1), Valley carpenter bee (2), venation (1), Xylocopa varipuncta (2)

State's Proposed Permit Rules for Insect-Collecting: Onerous, Obtrusive, Obstructive

Lynn Kimsey (third from left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, leading a field trip to collect insects on the Student Farm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

When UC Regents scholar Heather Wilson, a junior specialist in the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis...

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Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 7:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (117), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (1), Frank Zalom (3), Heather Wilson (1), insect collecting permits (1), Lynn Kimsey (188)

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