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Her Shoes Are as Magical and Enchanting as Lightning Bugs

Lynn Kimsey gets ready to lace up her new shoes, painted with cuckoo wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

She's known fondly as "The Wasp Woman" (wasps are her specialty) and now she may be known as "The...

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Posted on Monday, September 19, 2016 at 4:44 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (93), cuckoo wasps (1), LED shoes (1), Lynn Kimsey (158), The Wasp Woman (1)

Meet You at the Bohart!

Retired entomologist and Bohart Museum associate Norm Smith engages visitors as he talks about moths at the July 30th Bohart Museum open house. Smith received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis with major professor Richard Bohart, for whom the museum is named. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you've never visited the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, or...

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Posted on Friday, September 9, 2016 at 5:18 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (93), Jessica Glung (1), Lynn Kimsey (158), Norm Smith (1), open houses (3), Tabatha Yang (34)

An Un-Bee-Lievable Summer at Belize: Bohart Open House on Sunday, Sept. 18

Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) who curates the moth and butterfly collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks about butterflies at the Bohart's Belize summer expedition. (Photo by Steve Heydon)

You will not bee-lieve what a group of scientists affiliated with the Bohart Museum of Entomology,...

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Posted on Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 3:41 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Belize (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (93), David Wyatt (2), Folsom Lake College (1), Fran Keller (13), Jeff Smith (8), Lynn Kimsey (158), open house (14), Sacramento City College (1), Steve Heydon (13)

Yellowjacket or Paper Wasp?

A Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, sipping water. Note the black antennae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Western yellowjackets, nicknamed "meat bees" (as opposed to the "vegetarian honey bees") are often...

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Posted on Friday, September 2, 2016 at 3:29 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: European paper wasp (1), Lynn Kimsey (158), nest (1), Oakland Raiders (1), Polistes dominula (1), San Francisco Giants (1), UC IPM (2), Vespula pensylvanica (1), Western yellowjacket (2)

Moths! Moths! Moths! Can You Identify Your Moths?

This moth is the Tobacco Budworm (as identified by Lepitopteran Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology) It's shown here on a blanket flower, Gaillardia. Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So you have this significant garden pest--a caterpillar eating your cabbage, lettuce, tomato,...

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Posted on Friday, July 29, 2016 at 2:08 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (4), Bohart Museum of Entomology (93), Celebrate National Moth Week (1), Jack Kellly Clark (1), Lynn Kimsey (158), Tabatha Yang (34), UC IPM (2)

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