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Magical Mantis Moments
It was a "Magical Mantis Kind of Day" when the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open...
For the Bohart Museum open house on praying mantises, Kevin Murakoshi of Davis crafted these intricate origami praying mantises. With him is UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum. Murakoshi, a UC Davis alumnus and former UC Davis employee (computer research specialist), is the principal solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of the origami masterpieces of praying mantises, the work of Kevin Murakoshi of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Talented photographer Ian Alexander Levin of Sacramento displayed enlarged images of praying mantises at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Behind him is one of his images of a mantis eating a bee. Levin owns a child daycare in Sacramento and likes to share his images and critters with the youngsters in a "Critter Corner." He is the administrator of the Facebook page, SacraMantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Skylar Primavera, who studied praying mantises while attending UC Santa Barbara (bachelor's degree in biology, 2020) displayed a live mantis and life-cycle models (from the ootheca, the egg case, to the adult), and answered questions about the insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hands that have never touched a praying mantis touched this European mantis, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In a green praying mantis costume, Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answered questions from the guests at the open house on Aug. 27. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
About That Yellow-Legged Hornet Detected in Georgia
Folks in Georgia have more than Georgia on their minds. It's about this yellow-legged hornet...
The egg-shaped nest of a yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina. This 33 feet high on a Liriodendron tulipífera and identified in November 2015 at the Plaza Pedro Nunes, Porto, Portugal. It became visible when autumn leaves fell. (Photo by Paula Jorge, courtesy of Wikipedia)
The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
What's on the Menu for a Mantis?
A green bottle fly lands on a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in a Vacaville...
A green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) forages on milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, on Aug. 20 in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, sneaks closer to its prey, an unsuspecting green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In a split second, the praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, nails its prey, an unsuspecting green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dinner is served: Fly à la carte. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Stilt Walkers
They look as if they belong in a circus or in a cartoon. Long dangly legs, elongated body,...
A stilt bug, family Berytidae, on an evening primrose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Backlit stilt bugs, family Berytidae, clustering on an evening primrose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day! Time to post an image of a fly. Or two flies. On a cockroach. The scenario:...
A green bottle fly feasts on a cockroach, thought to be a Turkestan cockroach, a newer species in California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two green bottle flies feasting on what appears to be a Turkestan cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
