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Pollinator Gardens Make Us Happy: Get Ready for National Pollinator Week!

This is an overview of part of Kate Frey's pollinator garden at Sonoma Cornerstone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Are you ready for National Pollinator Week, June 18-June 24? A spectacular pollinator garden...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 4:44 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (13), birds (3), bumble bees (2), bumble bees (2), butterflies (51), Kate Frey (1), National Pollinator Week (1), pipevine swallowtail (2), pollinator garden (1), Sonoma Cornerstone (1), UC Davis Bee Symposium (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (4), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (1)

Focus Area Tags: Family Food Innovation Natural Resources Yard & Garden

It's Butterfly Heaven at the Bohart Museum

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly/moth collection at the Bohart Museum, enjoys sharing knowledge about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Butterfly heaven! Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly and moth collection at the...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 2:25 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (9), butterflies (51), Design Museum (2), insect art (2), Jeff Smith (5), moths (7), open house (4)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Family Natural Resources

Insect Art Is the 'In' Thing: Don't Miss Bohart Museum Open House on Jan. 21

Like to draw or color dragonflies? You'll have the opportunity to do just that at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 21. This is a flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

"Just call it a "Day of Insect Art!" Sunday afternoon, Jan. 21 promises to be a day of...

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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2018 at 6:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology open house (1), butterflies (51), Design Museum (2), dragonflies (5), insect art (2), insect-inspired clothing (1), tattoo art (1)

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

Of Butterfly Patterns and Genetic Codes

A painted lady, Vanessa cardui, on lantana in Vacaville, Calif. Now researchers at the University of Manitoba have identified the genetic code by which butterflies can assign color patterns to different parts of their wings during development. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Who knew? You've probably watched those colorful painted ladies (Vanessa cardui) fluttering...

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Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (14), butterflies (51), color patterns (1), Entomology Today (1), genes (1), Jeffrey Marcus (1), painted ladies (2), Scientific Reports (1), Viviane Callier (1)

Bohart Museum Visitors: As Close as Davis and as Far Away as San Jose

Bohart associate and butterfly expert Greg Kareofelas talks to Sacramento residents Amii Barnhard-Bahn and her daughter, Larkin, 15. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

When there's a Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, visitors come to listen, learn and...

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Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 12:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (9), butterflies (51), Greg Kareofelas (2), Jeff Smith (5), Lynn Kimsey (5), moths (7), Parasitoid Palooza (1), Tabatha Yang (2)

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