Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
Bohart Museum: Learn about California's State Insect on UC Davis Picnic Day
Quick, what's the California state insect? You may know that the California grizzly bear (Ursus...
This is the female California dogface butterfly, photographed by Greg Kareofelas, a Bohart Museum of Entomology asociate.
This is a California dogface butterfly eclosing from its chrysalis. (Reared and photographed by Greg Kareofelas)
This is the cover of the children's book, "The Story of the Dogface Butterfly," written by Fran Keller, now a professor at Folsom Lake College. Images are by Keller and Greg Kareofelas, and illustrations by Laine Bauer.
The Bohart Museum's popular live "petting zoo" also will be featured at the UC Davis Picnic Day. Here youngsters hold Madagascar hissing cockroaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Monarchs also will be featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on UC Davis Picnic Day. Jeff Smith curates the lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Dr. Bob--aka 'Dr. Death'--at UC Davis Picnic Day
If you visit the Dr. Death booth (it's actually a table!) at Briggs Hall during the 108th annual UC...
Visitors at the 2019 UC Davis Picnic Day take images of forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and his display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert "Bob" Kimsey at Alcatraz Island. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ooh, an Ooth! And on a Clothespin, at That!
No doubt you've seen a praying mantis egg case, or ootheca, on a tree, shrub, fence or...
An eggcase or ootheca warming on a clothespin in Vacaville, Calif. This is from a Stagmomantis limbata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of a gravid Stagmomantis limbata, taken last summer in a Vacaville pollinator garden, may have been the mama. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The predator and the prey. A female mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, eyes a honey bee in a pollinator garden in Vacaville last summer. She missed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Scientists Weigh in on 'The Plight of the Pollinators'
UC Davis scientists weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by...
A squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, foraging on an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, nectaring on milkweed, its host plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hummingbird seeking nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Awesome Annie, the Scorpion, at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Are you ready to meet awesome "Annie" at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on...
Doctoral candidate Lacie Newton collected this scorpion, Centruroides vittatus, at the Big Bend National Park in Texas. (Photo by Lacie Newton)
Doctoral candidate Lacie Newton collected this tarantula, Aphonopelma chalcodes, from the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix. (Photo by Lacie Newton)