Posts Tagged: Tracie Hayes

Bohart Museum Spotlight on Yellow-Bellied Burying Beetles

When you go to Bodega Bay, you may see giggling young beachgoers playfully bury one another in the sand.  On the more serious side, you'll probably never see the "burying beetle" research that ecologist-artist Tracie Hayes, a doctoral...

A carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, from a screen shot of a video by UC Davis doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist.

A carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, from a screen shot of a video by UC Davis doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist.

The Bohart Museum's family arts-and-crafts activity will be to color this drawing of a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, by doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist. (Credit: Tracie Hayes)

The Bohart Museum's family arts-and-crafts activity will be to color this drawing of a carrion beetle, genus Heterosilpha, by doctoral candidate Tracie Hayes, an ecologist and artist. (Credit: Tracie Hayes)

'Beetle Mania' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Jan. 22

There's "Beatlemania" and then there's "Beetle Mania." One involved the fanaticism directed at the English rock band, The Beatles. The other? It's taking place Sunday, Jan. 22 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California,...

The burying beetle is known for burying carcasses of small vertebrates, such as mice, squirrels and birds, and using them as a food source for its larvae. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

The burying beetle is known for burying carcasses of small vertebrates, such as mice, squirrels and birds, and using them as a food source for its larvae. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

A dung beetle with two balls of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

A dung beetle with two balls of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

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