Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Cockroaches for Dessert? Ummm...
Cockroaches for dessert? Yes. Tune into the latest UC Davis Unfold Podcast by journalists Amy...
This is the species of cockroach that Lynn Kimsey ate in Panama when the host served oatmeal and raisin cookies. Hers was an oatmeal raisin/roach cookie. "It had legs!" (Wikipedia photo by Gary Alpert, a colleague of Kimsey's)
Why Folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology Are Smiling--And So Very Grateful
If the folks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis are smiling even more than usual,...
The Bohart Museum of Entomology surpassed its goal of $5000 and gratefully received $6000. (Screen shot)
A map on the UC Davis CrowdFund wall shows where the donors to the Bohart Museum of Entomology are located. The drive is now over but the map and donors are at https://bit.ly/3v4MoaJ. (Screen shot)
Treasured Comments About Insects: Can We Hear a Collective 'Sigh?'
It's a given: entomologists collect insects. So what do entomology professors collect? Well, if...
A flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata, perched in Vacaville, Calif. One of Professor Kimsey's students commented on their "superior haunting skills."(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Comments about honey bees often find their way into Lynn Kimsey's treasured sentence collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato...Four
One potato, two potato, three potato...four... Well, make that "one potato bug, two potato bugs,...
A potato bug, aka Jerusalem cricket, at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How Jeff Smith’s 'Neighborly' Project Will Benefit the Bohart Museum of Entomology
A “neighborly” project by entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the...
Entomologist Jeff Smith talks to visitors at a summer open house, pre-COVID precautions, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Smith curates the collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
James "Jim" Steed, president and owner of the Neighborly Pest Management, Roseville, with some of the framed insect displays, the work of Jeff Smith. (Photo by Jeff Smith)
This is one of the framed displays of insect specimens by Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. He created 10 framed displays for the Neighborly Pest Management, Roseville. Jeff Smith donated the funds to the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Jeff Smith)