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A Big Butterfly-and-Bee Day at the Bohart

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly and moth display at the Bohart, shows South American rainforest butterflies, Preponas, in the genus Archaeoprepona to butterfly-bee enthusiast Ria deGrassi of Davis. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was a big butterfly-and-bee day at the Bohart. Despite other major attractions--including the...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 4:11 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (18), butterfly gardening (1), Greg Kareofelas (32), Jeff Smith (4), Lynn Kimsey (13), monarchs (2), Robbin Thorp (3)

A 'Butterfly Open House' at the Bohart Museum on March 19

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas talks to butterfly enthusiasts on a Placer Land and Trust tour looking for the California dogface butterfly, the state insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's almost spring. Do you know where your butterflies are? Do you know how to attract them to your...

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Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (9), Bohart Museum of Entomology (18), butterflies (1), Fran Keller (12), Greg Kareofelas (32), larval host plants (1), Lynn Kimsey (13), Tabatha Yang (5)

Like a Moth to...the Front Porch Light

Well, hello, there! A late-winter noctuid, Feralia februalis, on a screen door below a porch light. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Like a moth to a flame... Except this moth headed not for a flame, but to a porch light. Our porch...

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Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 4:19 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (9), Bohart Museum of Entomology (18), Feralia februalis (1), Greg Kareofelas (32), noctuid (1)

A Perfect Perch for a Dragonfly

A young male meadowhawk dragonfly, Sympetrum corruptum, perches on a seed ball of Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A perfect perch. A young male variegated meadowhawk dragonfly, Sympetrum corruptum, found a...

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Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 5:46 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (18), dragonfly (2), Greg Kareofelas (32), Sympetrum corruptum (2), UC Davis (1), variegated meadowhawk dragonfly (1)

Common Checkered Skipper: Sometimes It's Not So Common!

A common checkered skipper, Pyrgus communis, visits a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) is never alone. It loves company, attracting scores of insect...

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Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 3:18 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (9), common checkered skipper (1), Greg Kareofelas (32), Lavatera maritima (1), mallow (1), Mexican sunflower (1), Pyrgus communis (1), Tithonia (3), UC Davis Arboretum (1)

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