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RJ Millena: from Entomology-Focused Kindergartener to Scoring Cover of Journal With Her Research
Remember Rebecca Jean "RJ" Millena? She's the little Concord, Calif., kindergarten student...
RJ Millena, a doctoral candidate of comparative biology in the lab of Professor Jessica Ware, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) holds a copy of the journal "Environmental Entomology." Her research is the cover story. (Photo by UC Davis alumnus Lohit Garikipati, now a doctoral student at AMNH)
This image shows a twisted-wing insect (Xenos peckii) male pupae in dark paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus) (Abbott Nature Photography)
This image of UC Davis entomology graduate RJ Millena shows her jumping for joy while wielding an insect net. (Photo taken in 2021 by Kaylee Fagan)
Know Your ABC's: Arthropods, Bohart and Collecting
Folks are looking forward to the next open house at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with a drawer of monarch specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a male monarch on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a female monarch on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Just Dropping by to Say 'Hello'
A praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, stretches beneath a Mexican sunflower,...
A praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, stretches beneath a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Nearly Wild' and 'In the Pink'
Talk about flower power. When you walk through the UC Davis Bee Haven, a half-acre...
A pink floribunda rose cultivar, "Nearly Wild," draws honey bees and native bees in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A native bee seeks to join two honey bees in gathering nectar and pollen from a floribunda rose cultivar, "Nearly Wild," in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of a honey bee foraging on a "Nearly Wild" rose cultivar in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on "Nearly Wild" looks at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thinking of Noted Cotton Entomologist Thomas Frances Leigh
This time of year we're thinking of noted cotton entomologist Thomas Frances Leigh (1923-1993)...
A display of harvested cotton balls. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
