Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum of Entomology
Bugs-Plants-People Interactions at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Plenty of interactions occurred among bugs, plants and people at the 12th annual UC Davis...
Three youngsters delight in moving wildlife around--a squirrel, a bear, a carpenter bee and a butterfly--at the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A boy raises his hand to ask a question as Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, discusses arthropods, including the black widow spiders in the foreground. The occasion: the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Miles Pickard, 4, listens as his mother, Marissa Pickard, points out a display at the Center for Plant Diversity at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Alison Colwell, curator of the UC Davis Herbarium, lines up displays for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marlene Simon, curator of the Botanical Conservatory, points to a plant that needs pollinating. She is known as "The Plant Lady" on the TV program, Good Day Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day volunteer Anna Klestinec contemplates the plants in the Botanical Conservatory. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hissers: Big, Bold and Beautiful
Madagascar hissing cockroaches, aka hissers, are big, bold and beautiful. Just ask the...
Finn Jensen, 2 1/2, awaits the placement of a Madagascar hissing cockroach in his hand. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Connected! A Madagascar hissing cockroach and Finn Jensen meet. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Finn Jensen beams in delight as he holds the Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Finn Jensen's smile tells it all as he cradles the Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Scorpions Draw Curious Looks and Scores of Questions
What's to know about scorpions, the predatory arachnids in the order Scorpiones? Access Wikipedia,...
UC Davis entomology freshman student Kat Taylor answers questions at the Jason Bond lab display table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Martin Hauser, senior insect biosystematist in the Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, fluoresces an Asian forest scorption. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of an Asian forest scorpion shown at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day by Martin Hauser of the CDFA. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Asian forest scorpion, under ultraviolet light, glows blue-green. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors delighted in holding stick insects, aka walking sticks, at the Martin Hauser display in the Academic Surge Building during the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: A Great Time to Talk Ants
How did you spend your Presidents' Day weekend? Well, if you were high school...
Got an ant question? From left are members of the Phil Ward ant lab at UC Davis: doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zachary Griebenow, and third-year doctoral student Ziv Lieberman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Jill Oberski answers questions from Ziya Akmal of Los Angeles. Akmal made the 400-mile trip to talk to Professor Phil Ward and the Ward lab members at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Brendon Boudinot (foreground), now an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, answers questions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Seated are doctoral candidate Jill Oberski and graduate student Ziv Lieberman of the Phil Ward lab. In back is doctoral candidate Zachary Griebenow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All Systems Are 'Go'--and 'Green'--for UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
All systems are "go"--and "green"--for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on...
Wearing of the Green--Ready to greet the crowd at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Feb. 18 are (from left) Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, and entomology students and Bohart associates, Sol Wantz, president of the Entomology Club, and Allen Chew. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)