Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Do Moths Usually Land with Their Wings Down?
National Moth Week ended last Sunday, July 25, but questions linger. A reader asked: "A friend was...
An alfalfa looper moth, Autographa californica, foraging on mustard. Moth identified by Art Shapiro of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
John "Moth Man" De Benedictus (far right) shows visitors the blacklighting system at a Bohart Museum Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) discusses the difference between moths and butterflies at a Bohart Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oak Honey? To 'Bee' Sure
This is not something you see every day. When Lynn Kimsey, director of the UC Davis...
Honey bee licking a baby acorn. (Photo by Lynn Kimsey)
The Art of the Ant
We're used to admiring street art that showcases such iconic insects as lady beetles, dragonflies...
Street art usually focuses on such insects as bees, butterflies and dragonflies, but at Vacaville's Ulatis Creek Park, someone affixed this carpenter ant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
See the carpenter ant (foreground at right) on the bridge pillar of the Ulatis Creek Bridge, Vacaville? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Entomology Graduate: A Kindergarten Dream Comes True
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this image of a jumping-for-joy entomology graduate...
This image of UC Davis entomology graduate RJ Millena shows her jumping for joy while wielding an insect net. (Photo by Kaylee Fagan)
This insect-themed graduation cap is in the running for UC Davis prizes. RJ Millena's first project involved the California pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor). See caterpillar.(Photo by Kaylee Fagan)
Bohart Museum Receives Collection of More than 50,000 Aculeate Wasp Specimens
If you've ever seen a spider-hunting wasp capture, sting, and paralyze a spider, you know what...
Female golden hunting wasp dragging a paralyzed spider to its nest. (Photo by Tony Wills, courtesy of Wikipedia)
Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey (inside truck) and husband UC Davis forensic entomologist Bob Kimsey unload the U-Haul truck. At right is Bohart research associate Brennen Dyer. Also helping are Kimsey friends, Mike Whitney (retired Placer County sheriff) and his wife, Becky. (Photo by Steve Heydon)
The Marius Wasbauer aculeate (stinging) wasp specimens total more than 50,000. (Photo by Steve Heydon)