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A Moth Named for Trump, Snopes, and the Bohart Museum of Entomology
It's not every day that Snopes "gets involved" in setting the record straight regarding a moth linked to an entomology department--specifically the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. The back story: On...
These are images of the moth, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a species that Bohart Museum scientists collected in the Algodones Dunes. The Bohart Museum loaned the collection to evolutionary biologist and systematist Vazrick Nazari of Canada, who discovered it was a new species and named it. (Images by Vazrick Nazari, posted in ZooKeys)
Food Waste Project: Emma Vazquez on the Mike!
Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics...
Bohart Museum of Entomology Gearing Up for 2025
Drum roll... The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is gearing up for the new year. Open houses or special events planned from January through May include: Saturday, Jan. 11:General Open House 1 to 4...
Visitors to an upcoming Bohart Museum of Entomology open house will learn the differences between venomous and poisonous. This jumping spider is venomous. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
If a Praying Mantis Could Greet You...'Nice to Eat You'
They don't communicate like we do, but if praying mantises could talk, do you think they would forego the formal greeting of "Nice to meet you" and say "Nice to eat you?" Perhaps! We get a kick out of the UC Davis Entomology...
Male (top) and female praying mantises, Stagmomantis limbata, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male mantis has lost his head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Last of Its Generation
Look, over there! It's Thanksgiving Week and there's a newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary on a tattered pink zinnia "that looks as it has seen better days," as my mother used to say. The orange of autumn exploding, the silver of yultide beckoning....
A newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary suns itself on a zinnia in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Gulf Fritillary shows its silver-spangled wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A splash of yellow behind the Gulf Fritillary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
