Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey
The Hornworms Are Not Your Friends
If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for...
This hornworm is feeding on a pepper plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When the caterpillar or larva is disturbed, it "rears up into an Egyptian sphinx-like pose," says entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The frass (droppings) from a hornworm. It's a tell-tale sign you have hornworms in your garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The tomato hornworm turns into a sphinx moth or hummingbird moth (family Sphingidae). (Wikipedia Photo)
Amazing Story About What Entomologist Lynn Kimsey Recorded in San Francisco Bay 50 Years Ago
Imagine this. You're a high school junior and you want to become a marine biologist. You're...
Lynn Siri (far right), now UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey, laughs with her sister, Anne, as their mother, Jean Siri, tries on a skull.
To Be an Underwing Underfoot
You can be an understudy or you can be an underwing. Or underfoot. Have you ever seen...
An underwing moth, maybe a Catocala amatrix, with tattered wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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)