Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum of Entomology
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle: Crush It With a Car and It Still Survives
If you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Sunday on beetles, you may have...
A diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus, held by Bohart Museum research associate Brittany Kohler. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Open house visitors examine the diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus. In back is Bohart research associate Brittany Kohler, who collected the beetles in the Sierra Foothills. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beetlemania at the Bohart: Something Clicked
Something clicked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Beetlemania" last Sunday...
An enthusiastic little girl (future entomologist?) buries her head in a beetle display at the Bohart Museum open house, much to the delight of UC Berkeley associate professor and carabid beetle specialist Kipling "Kip" Will. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis law student and San Francisco 49'er fan Ben Padilla of Gilroy, wearing a Christian McCaffrey jersey, listens to carabid beetle specialist Kip Will of UC Berkeley. Padilla left a little early to watch the San Francisco-Dallas game. McCaffrey scored the only touchdown for the 49'ers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum collections manager Brennen Dyer (far right) shows black widow spiders to Ben Padilla and Nicole Tague, both of Gilroy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A collection of carabid beetles displayed at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A click beetle display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and...
Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.
Children's activities by Project Learning Tree will be among the featured activities at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Jan. 22.
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart Museum Open House
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on...
Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, is shown here wearing her Bohart Museum rhinoceros beetle shirt at Kensington Palace. Keller taught science to community college students in London during the fall semester. She designed this beetle, which is available in the Bohart Museum gift shop.
Some of the insects collected during a Bio Blitz in Belize for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Fran Keller)
Up, Close and Personal with Beetles
Seen any lady beetles, aka ladybugs, in your yard this year? Now that the sun's out and the worst...
A birds-eye-view of a wintering agave. Can you spot the lady beetles, aka ladybugs? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Closer...The camera zooms in on a pair of lady beetles on the agave. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Closer and closer. The agave plant looks like bunched-up, red-tipped asparagus from this view. The lady beetles are clearly visible. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Closer still. The ruby-red lady beetles are threading through the plant leaves to soak up some sun after the massive California storms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)