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Posts Tagged: butterflies
All the 'Bugs' at UC Davis Picnic Day Will Be at Briggs Hall
Wait! Don't head over to the Bohart Museum of Entomology in the Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane on Saturday, April 20 during the 110th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Why? It will be closed. The Bohart Museum, part of the UC Davis...
A monarch banner beckons visitors to Briggs Hall, home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Revisiting the Issue of Monarch Butterflies Missing from California Classrooms
A monarch butterfly caterpillar goes through five stages or instars before it J's and becomes a jade-green chrysalis. Scientists estimate that only 10 percent of the eggs and 'cats survive to adulthood. They don't "survive" at all in...
A monarch caterpillar crawling on a milkweed leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male monarch butterfly foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifola) in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatle Garvey)
Breathtaking Bluebonnets and Butterflies
If you've never been to the 284-acre Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, Austin, in the spring to see the flora and fauna--especially the breathtaking bluebonnets--you're in for a real treat. The Wildflower...
Signage at the 284-acre Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, Austin, welcomes visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bluebonnet sign warns visitors of rattlesnakes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors are to stay on the path at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildlower Center. This image was taken on Easter Sunday. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bluebonnets were spectacular on Easter Sunday. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mary Louise Flint's Article in The Acorn: 'Butterflies in Decline'
You won't want to miss the cover story, "Butterflies in Decline," in the spring 2024 issue of The Acorn, the quarterly magazine published by the Effie Yeaw Nature Center. The center, operated by the American River Natural History...
A pipevine swallowtail nectaring on Jupiter's beard in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Art Shapiro: 'Using Butterflies to Understand Biotic Responses to Climate Change'
The crowd at the recent UC Davis emeriti celebration listened closely to the presentation delivered by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, who has been monitoring butterfly populations in Central California since...
UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal (left), organizer and host of the emeriti celebrations, introduces UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro, known as "the butterfly guru."
