Posts Tagged: Fran Keller
Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and...
Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.
Children's activities by Project Learning Tree will be among the featured activities at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Jan. 22.
New Additions to Bohart Museum Open House on Beetles
A Cal Fire display of bark beetles and a children's activity by Project Learning Tree California...
Project Learning Tree (PLT) California aims to "use trees and forests as windows on the world to increase students' understanding of the environment and actions they can take to conserve it."
Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing examining a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart Museum Open House
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on...
Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, is shown here wearing her Bohart Museum rhinoceros beetle shirt at Kensington Palace. Keller taught science to community college students in London during the fall semester. She designed this beetle, which is available in the Bohart Museum gift shop.
Some of the insects collected during a Bio Blitz in Belize for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Fran Keller)
Beetles! Bohart Museum Open House Set Sunday, Jan. 22
Beetles! And with an exclamation point! That's the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
This is a burying beetle, Nicrophorus germanicus. It buries the carcasses of small vertebrae and uses them as a food source for its larva. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A multicolored Asian beetle and her eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A dung beetle with two ball of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Bohart Museum of Entomology: Limited Hours During the Holiday Season
If you're planning to visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the University of Davis,...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, shows visitors some of the specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fran Keller, professor at Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum scientist, often staffs the Bohart gift shop. She received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, studying with Bohart director Lynn Kimsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Stick insects, aka walking sticks, are a popular feature in the Bohart Museum's live "petting zoo." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)