Bug Blog
Oh, the Bugs They Saw at the Bohart!
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, hosted an open house showcasing specimens collected last summer in Belize, attendees came from far and wide, from senior citizens to...
Jordan Bailey, a student in Fran Keller's class at Folsom Lake College, holds a walking stick for extra credit. At right is Keller, an assistant professor and Bohart associate. She received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Milo Kovet, a student in Fran Keller's class at Folsom Lake College, watches as his daughter, Paschela Kovet, 8, holds a tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Noah Crockette, 17, of Davis, participated on the Belize tour and answered questions from the crowd at the Bohart open house. He won a grant to study beetles in Belize. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A donation to the Bohart: Esther and Gordon Schmierer (center) of Lodi donated Esther's specimens that she collected in 1973-73 while living in Belize. Flanking them are David Wyatt, professor, Sacramento City College, and Fran Keller, assistant professor, Folsom Lake College, who led the collection trip to Belize last summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A young boy peruses a book as a crowd gathers in the Bohart Museum gift shop, which is open year around. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These are some of the insects collected during the Belize trip last summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
At the Bohart open houses,there are family activities. Here Echo Valor, 8, of Rio Linda, makes a button with assistance from his mother, Nika Valor. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In a Butterfly State-of-Mind
So here's this gravid praying mantis perched on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in a Vacaville pollinator garden. She's in a butterfly state-of-mind, a picture of patience and persistence, a predator...
An unsuspecting monarch lands next to a Mexican sunflower occupied by a predator, a praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The monarch spots the praying mantis and in a winged frenzy, begins his escape. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The monarch escapes. A close call! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's time to practice some more patience and persistence. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How Many Tagged Migrating Monarchs Have You Seen?
It's rare to see a tagged monarch, either when it's migrating to its overwintering site or when it's clustered high in a tree, sheltered from the elements. When we drove to Santa Cruz on Dec. 27,...
Roosting or overwintering monarchs in the Berkeley Aquatic Park on Nov. 30,2015. No tagged monarchs are visible. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Naturalist Greg Kareofelas (center), an associate with the Bohart Museum of Entomology, has sighted two tagged migrating monarchs, one at Table Mountain and the other at Knights Landing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
That Amazing Migrating Monarch Project
He may have been “born" in an Ashland, Ore., vineyard. But at least we know he hails from Ashland. That's what we learned about the male monarch that fluttered into our pollinator garden in...
This migratory monarch, released Aug. 28 from Ashland, Ore. and tagged with monarch@wsu.edu A6093, nectared on Mexican sunflower in Vacaville, Calif. on Sept. 5. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the vineyard in Ashland where A6093 may have originated. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
WSU entomologist David James, wearing a monarch t-shirt, with citizen-scientist inmates at Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla. (Photo courtesy of WSU)
It's All the Buzz: WAS to Meet in Davis in 2017
It's all the buzz. It's just been announced that the Western Apicultural Society (WAS), founded 40 years ago at UC Davis, will be meeting ...drum roll...Sept. 5-8, 2017 in Davis,...
This sign, fronting the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis, is the work of self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is "Miss Bee Haven," a worker bee ceramic-mosaic sculpture that anchors the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. It is the work of Donna Billick (shown) of Davis, a self-described "rock artist." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology operates the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)