Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum Society
Oh, What a Night! Bohart Museum Society's Pre-Halloween Party
The Bohart Museum Society's annual pre-Halloween party, held recently in the Bohart Museum of...
This trio at the Bohart Museum Society party is comprised of (from left) Professors Diane Ullman and Phil Ward, and Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey, dressed in a ghilie suit, poses with former Bohart Museum student employees Yik Lam of Raleigh, N.C., and Sara Woodworth of Kihei, Hawaii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"The Tall Tree" is UC Davis alumnus Scott Ballinger, who, at a height of 6'7", towered over everyone. With him is graduate student Grace Horne of the Emily Meineke lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ellen Lange, UC Davis lecturer emerita of linguistics, is pictured with Steve Heydon, Bohart senior museum scientist and his wife, Anita. Heydon retired at the end of October. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who is that "Red Guy?" That's UC Davis undergraduate Max Arnold of the Robert Kimsey forensic lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Allen Crew, as an angel, walks past a Bohart Museum logo. Crew is an undergraduate student at UC Davis and an artist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Batman" Severyn Korneyev and his wife, Kristina Kernytska, both of Ukraine. Severyn is a postdoctoral researcher (studying flies) at the Bohart Museum and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. At far left, wearing the ghillie suit, is UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary and Work of Director Lynn Kimsey
With spider decorations dangling from trees and entomologists representing everything from a horse...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks to the crowd before cutting the cake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey cuts the 75th anniversary cake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An array of Bohart-motif pastries, the work of Tiffany Warrick of CreaTions N EvenTs, Rancho Cordova. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emcee Jason Bond, the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair and professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, praises the work of Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The crowd listens intently to the ceremony praising the work of Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator, captures some images. In the background are Ellen Lange with Steve and Anita Heydon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spiders dangled from the trees at the Bohart Museum Society's party and guests paid them no mind. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What kind of spider is this? Arachnologist Jason Bond identified the replicas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hand mysteriously appears near a spider web. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Costumes ranged from tortoise shell beetles to a horse fly, monarch and lamp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Veteran entomologist Dick Meyer (far right), who studied with Richard Bohart, shows some insects to attendees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's a moth to a flame or a light? Entomologist Benjamin Maples donned a lightshade as his costume. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Attendees decorated a piñata with their drawings of insects. Here UC Davis entomology student Gwen Erdosh takes her turn. At right is entomologist Alex Dedmon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology doctoral candidate Jill Oberski of the Phil Ward lab, whacks the piñata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emma Cluff, a UC Davis graduate and Bohart associate who works in the lab of Jay Rosenheim, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, takes down the piñata, with the assistance of Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator dressed as a horse fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This "Thank you" sign is part of the Crowdfund project to raise funds for traveling display cases. Crowdfund donations end on Oct. 31. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This banner, by UC Davis entomology graduate Christine Melvin, pays tribute to the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 75th anniversary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Wonder of Water Bears, and Soon, a Sculpture at the Bohart
What a wonderful idea! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis boasts one of the world's...
An artist's conception of a tardigrade sculpture in front of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
Yes, Locusts Browse Computer Dating Sites
Do locusts browse computer dating sites, trying to find a match made in heaven? They do. Just...
This is the illustration that Karissa Merritt, UC Davis entomology major and artist, created for the Bohart Museum of Entomology calendar for the month of January. The calendar is available to the public for $12.
This banded-winged grasshopper--family Acrididae, subfamily Oedipodinae--apparently has little interest in checking out dating sites on the computer. Kathy Keatley Garvey captured this image on the UC Davis campus in September 2011; identification by Bohart senior museum scientist Steve Heydon.
Bohart Museum's Innovative Calendar: Combining Insects, Art and Fun
“The swarmers are attracted to lights and tend to expose themselves in the...
"The swarmers are attracted to lights and tend to expose themselves in the evenings." This statement from a UC Davis student now illustrates the Bohart Museum calendar. This art work is by Karissa Merritt, a fourth-year entomology student, Bohart associate, and longtime artist.
"The infected fleas can harbor rats, ground squirrels, rabbits, and occasionally, even house cats." The UC Davis undergraduate student's sentence came to life in this illustration by Karissa Merritt.
Bohart Museum associates and director Lynn Kimsey display the newly published insect/art calendars. From left are Abram Estrada, Sophia Lonchar, director Lynn Kimsey, Emma Cluff, Wade Spencer and Brennen Dyer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)