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Meet Some Crafty Insects at Bohart Museum of Entomology

A praying mantis dining on a cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Talk about "crafty"--as in cunning or sneaky--insects. Ever seen a praying mantis ambushing a...

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Posted on Monday, September 17, 2018 at 4:41 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: assassin bug (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (286), European paper wasp (2), Gulf Fritillary (3), honey bees (7), Lynn Kimsey (156), open house (27), praying mantis (18), Tabatha Yang (69)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Family Pest Management Yard & Garden

The Predator and the Prey: Just Wing It!

A male Stagmomomantis limbata, as identified by mantis expert Lohit Garikipati, a UC Davis student who rears mantids, stretches in the passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Judge: "Will the defendant please rise?" The defendant, a praying mantis--a male Stragmomantis...

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Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 3:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (286), Gulf Fritillary (3), Lohit Garikipati (4), passionflower vine (1), praying mantis (18)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Ever Seen a Mantidfly?

Mantidflies use their front legs to catch small insect prey. This one was collected by John De Benedictis at the UC Davis Stebbens Cold Canyon Reserve. (Snapshot by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ever seen a mantidfly, also called a mantisfly? Bohart Museum of Entomology associate John De...

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Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (286), BugGuide.net (2), Climaciella brunnea (1), John De Benedictis (2), mantidflies (1), mantisflies (1), UC Davis Stebbens Cold Canyon Reserve (1), University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources Yard & Garden

A B-Day Celebration for Robbin Thorp at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, serves dessert at Robbin Thorp's birthday celebration while the distinguished emeritus professor reads the birthday wishes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was "b-day" today at The Bohart Museum of Entomology in honor of longtime Bohart associate...

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Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (286), bumble bees (3), Charlotte Herbert Alberts (1), Entomological Society of America (2), Franklin''s bumble bees (1), Robbin Thorp (15), Tabatha Yang (69), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (19)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Innovation Natural Resources Yard & Garden

These Insects Thrive in the Extreme!

Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and animal biology major Crystal Homicz look at the turncoat covered with pinned beetles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A mannequin in a firefighter turncoat pinned with fire beetles drew "oohs" and "aahs" at the Bohart...

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Posted on Friday, August 24, 2018 at 4:18 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (286), extreme insects (2), Lynn Kimsey (156), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (19)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Family Natural Resources Pest Management Yard & Garden

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