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Posts Tagged: plants
Gearing Up for UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: Crowdfunding Is First
This is a winter event you won't want to miss. The event: The 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a Super Science Day. It's an opportunity to see scientists in action. It's day when you can visit such biological museums or collections...
Crowdfunding is underway for the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day.
At the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, children delighted in the science at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor, entomologist and UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, seen here in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, discusses black widow spiders during the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Of Bugs and Plants and Eagles...and More...
Of bugs and plants and eagles...and more... The 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday, Feb. 18 on the university campus, will feature 11 museums or collections in what is billed as a "Super Science Day." Frankly, it's a super way to...
The Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo draws scores of visitors. Here a youngster gets acquainted with a stick insect, aka walking stick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Center for Plant Diversity, aka Herbarium, located in the Esau Science Hall, includes a petting zoo. Visitors can "pet" pine cones. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Raptor Center volunteer Billy Thein introduces the crowd to a golden eagle during a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Know your plants! This group of young visitors at the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden display gets acquainted with plants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mark Your Calendars! UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day is Feb. 18
Mark your calendars! The 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, billed as "A Day to Celebrate Science," is set for Saturday, Feb. 18. Traditionally held during Presidents' Day Weekend, the event is free and family friendly. Parking is...
Nematologist Shahid Siddique, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty, answers questions at the 2021 UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors gather at the UC Davis Anthropology Museum to learn about the displays. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A youngster gets acquainted with a stick insect, aka walking stick, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors learn "What is an herbarium?" at the Center for Plant Diversity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ask me anything about yeast cultures! Kyria Boundy-Mills is the curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection. She maintains the collection, distributes strains to researchers on campus and around the world, and performs research that builds and/or taps the collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Citizen Scientists Invited to Join the Seed Pile Project
Want to join the 2022-23 Seed Pile Project, a community science initiative by Miridae Living Labs of West Sacramento and UC Davis faculty that aims to better understand the dynamics of native plant seed dispersal in human-dominated landscapes? If...
A honey bee foraging on a California golden poppy, the state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tropical Milkweed Doesn't Deserve the Bad Rap
Fact: Milkweed is the host plant of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. Fact: Without milkweed, no monarchs. Yet a milkweed species that's been thriving in California for more than a century is getting a bad rap. The California Department of...
A monarch nectaring on tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch caterpillar foraging on tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch laying an egg on a tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
