Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Would You Eat a Chocolate-Covered Cicada?
Would you eat a chocolate-covered cicada? Yes? No? Maybe? Entomophagy is no problem for...
Sampling a chocolate-covered cicada snack are (from left) Maxwell Arnold, Brennen Dyer, Iris Bright, Amberly Hackmann, and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All Hail the Lady Beetles!
Step right up, folks! I'm a lady beetle, aka ladybug, and it's lunch time. Or maybe it's...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, munches on an aphid, as another aphid looks as if it's waiting its turn to be eaten. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The larva of a lady beetle will also eat its share of aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Hornworms Are Not Your Friends
If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for...
This hornworm is feeding on a pepper plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When the caterpillar or larva is disturbed, it "rears up into an Egyptian sphinx-like pose," says entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The frass (droppings) from a hornworm. It's a tell-tale sign you have hornworms in your garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The tomato hornworm turns into a sphinx moth or hummingbird moth (family Sphingidae). (Wikipedia Photo)
Amazing Story About What Entomologist Lynn Kimsey Recorded in San Francisco Bay 50 Years Ago
Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're...
Lynn Siri (far right), now UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey, laughs with her sister, Anne, as their mother, Jean Siri, tries on a skull.
To Be an Underwing Underfoot
You can be an understudy or you can be an underwing. Or underfoot. Have you ever seen...
An underwing moth, maybe a Catocala amatrix, with tattered wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)