Posts Tagged: Srdan Tunic
The Art of Loving Insects: Bohart Museum-Style
Do you like to draw insects? Do you want to meet artists who draw insects? Do you have a tattoo of...
Megan Ma of the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis, is both a scientist and a scientific illustrator. In 2021, she received a National Science Foundation Award, Research Experience for Post-Baccalaureate Students. In June 2021, she received a bachelor's degree in evolution, ecology and biodiversity, with a minor in entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This illustration of a Jerusalem cricket, aka potato bug, by UC Davis student Allen Chew, adorns a Bohart Museum t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Three Insect-Related Events at Aggie Spirit Week: That's the Spirit!
That's the spirit! What better way to celebrate Aggie Spirit Week, Oct. 10-16, on the UC Davis...
This image shows scientific illustrator Mary Foley Benson at age 21 in 1926 when she was employed by the USDA.
Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum and Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator, confer on a display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a popular attraction at the Bohart Museum's live "petting zoo." Visitors can hold, pet and take images of them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stick insect, aka walking stick, crawls on an arm at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Live insects are part of the museum's petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zeroing in on the Life of Scientific Illustrator Mary Foley Benson
The late Mary Foley Benson would have been proud. Benson, internationally known for her entomology...
Mary Foley (later Mary Foley Benson) at work as a scientific illustrator with the USDA. This image was taken in 1926 when she was 21.
Mary Foley Benson at her home studio in Davis, Calif. (Photo courtesy of the Auburn Journal, Oct. 11, 1981)
UC Davis Art History Graduate Student to Discuss Life of Mary Foley Benson
Srdan Tunic, a UC Davis graduate student studying for his master's degree in art history, will...
Mary Foley as a scientific illustrator for the USDA in 1926 at age 21.
Mary Foley Benson at home in her Davis studio. (Auburn Journal, Oct. 11, 1981)
Bohart Museum Moth Night: What a Night!
Oh, what a night! It was like a moth to a flame--or 400 moths to a flame--when a record crowd...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows a visitor how to spread the wings of a moth. (Photo by Tabatha Yang)
UC Davis students Francisco Basso (top) and Kyle Elshoff work on a luna moth on the sidewalk outside the Bohart Museum of Entomology, Academic Surge Building. (Photo by Tabatha Yang)
Part of the 400-member crowd at the Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night. (Photo by Srdan Tunic)
Moth and butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology drew a large crowd on Moth Night. Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas is on the left (mask). (Photo by Srdan Tunic)
A night-time scene in front of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at its July 30th Moth Night. A luna moth chalk drawing is in the foreground. (Photo by Srdan Tunic)