Posts Tagged: caterpillars
'Most Delicious Poison': A Must-Read Book
“A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and...
A monarch caterpillar munching on milkweed in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a monarch munching milkweed in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A newly eclosed male monarch spreads its wings in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Roll Call: Answer If You're Here
Roll call of monarch caterpillars today in a milkweed bed in a Vacaville pollinator...
A monarch caterpillar, the result of fall breeding in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gotta Love Those Monarch 'Cats
Did you celebrate National Cat Day on Oct. 29? We haven't had a cat since our 16-year-old tuxedo,...
A monarch caterpillar chomping on showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, in a Vacavile garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two monarch caterpillars devouring the leaves of a narrowleafed milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A very hungry caterpillar on milkweed in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch caterpillar and a bee on a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Xena the Warrior Princess (2000-2016) checking out a monarch butterfly in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomological ABCs: Ants, Bees and Caterpillars
Urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology...
A monarch caterpillar, Danaus plexippus, munching on milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a honey bee, Apis mellifera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rainforest ants, Euprenolepis procera feeding on a Pleurotus mushroom. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Undergrad Thesis Scores the Cover of Environmental Entomology
It's not every day that an undergraduate thesis makes the cover story of a professional...
A screen shot of Grace Horne's work that appears in the current edition of the journal Environmental Entomology.