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A Praying Mantis Named Cupcake Greets Visitors at the Bohart Museum

Cupcake, a Rhombodera megaera praying mantis, perches on the hand of her owner, UC Davis animal biology major, Crystal Homicz. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Most bakers define a "cupcake" as a a small cake designed to serve one person--and one that can be...

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Posted on Monday, February 19, 2018 at 4:09 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: animal biology (1), Biodiversity Museum Day (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (14), Crystal Homicz (1), praying mantis (75), Rhombodera megaera (1), Steve Seybold (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

Meet and Greet 'Watermelon' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

This praying mantis, nicknamed

Have you ever said "Hi" to a watermelon? No? Well, you can "meet and greet" a watermelon at the...

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Posted on Monday, February 12, 2018 at 5:18 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Australian rainforest mantis (1), Biodiversity Museum Day (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (14), Hierodula majuscola (1), Lohit Garikipati (2), praying mantis (75), UC Davis (5)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

To Boldly Go, and the Chancellor Did: To an Insect Museum!

Lynn Kimsey (far right), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks about the history of the insect museum to UC Davis Chancellor Gary May and Dean Helene Dillard (center) of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In back are Steve Nadler, chair of the Department of Entomology and Nematmology; undergraduate students Emma Cluff and Lohit Garikipati and Nann Fangue, current chair of the Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology Department. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

“To Boldy Go.” UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, a Star Trek enthusiast, coined that theme...

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Posted on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 2:29 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (14), Chancellor Gary May (1), Dean Helene Dillard (1), Lohit Garikipati (2), Lynn Kimsey (8), petting zoo (1), praying mantis (75), scorpion (1), Wade Spencer (2)

Focus Area Tags: Innovation Natural Resources

Praying Mantises to Draw Attention at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day

UC Davis entomology major Lohitashwa “Lohit” Garikipati showed his praying mantises at a Bohart Museum open house last September. He will be showing his collection on Saturday, Feb. 17 during the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's about value. It's about respect. It should not be about fear. UC Davis entomology major...

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Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 3:59 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum (1), praying mantis (75), UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1)

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

Surprise! A Little Brown Package in the UC Davis Arboretum

A praying mantis egg case or ootheca, clings to a Mexican grass tree, Dasylirion longissimum, in the UC Davis Arboreum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Surprise! Surprise! You never know what you'll see when you're strolling through the 100-acre UC...

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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 3:10 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Andrew Pfeifer (3), Dasylirion longissimum (1), honey bee (14), Mexican grass tree (1), ootheca (6), praying mantis (75), UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden (1)

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