Posts Tagged: UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month
Learn About the Diversity of Bees in This UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month Program
Talk about diverse. The bee world exemplifies diversity and the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum...
A honey bee in flight, packing red pollen from a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, formerly known as Xylocopa varipuncta. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, which the late Robbin Thorp of UC Davis called "the teddy bear bee." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on the tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male leafcutter bee, Megachile spp., foraging on rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Male longhorned bees, Melissodes agilis, asleep on a Tithonia blossom. Females return to their nest at night; males cluster outside. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, on a purple coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female leafcutting bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hornets, Ants and Bees: UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month
Asian giant hornets, ants and honey bees will be among the topics featured in live talks and...
The Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, will be the topic of a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month program at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18 when Professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, presents a live talk. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture)
Carpenter ants, Camponotus semitestaceus, in Alamo Creek Park, Vacaville. Members of the Phil Ward lab will discuss a variety of ants at two presentations: one on Feb. 13 and on Feb. 20.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee and a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenki, sharing a purple coneflower. Christine Casey, manager of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, will engage in a live question-and-answer session on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 12:15 to 12:45. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Science of Nematodes, Butterflies, Millipedes and Arachnids
Do you know what a nematode is? That's a question that nematologists are frequently asked. Well,...
Nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presenting a video on nematology. (Screen shot)
UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman offers a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection in this video. (Screen shot)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, gives an overview of how the museum collects, preserves and identifies some of its nearly 8 million insects. (Screen shot)
Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, talks about common millipedes in the Sacramento-San Francisco region in this video. (Screen shot)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains how to pin and spread butterfly and moths for display. (Screen shot)
UC Davis doctoral student Lacie Newton of the Jason Bond lab talks about arachnids in her video. (Screen shot)
Of Nematodes, Butterflies, Moths, Millipedes and Arachnids...
Nematodes, butterflies, moths, arachnids, millipedes, and how to collect, preserve and identify...
Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presents a video on nematodes. (Screen shot)
Diane Ullman, professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presents a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection. (Screen shot)
Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, presents a video on millipedes. (Screen shot)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, shows how to spread and pin the insects in this video. (Screen shot)
Lacie Newton, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond, talks about arachnids in this video. (Screen shot)
Let's All Appreciate Ants! Don't Miss These Biodiversity Museum Programs
Let's take a moment to appreciate ants. You know you want to! Did you own--and treasure--an ant...
UC Davis professor Phil Ward looking for ants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A winter ant, Prenolepis imparis, encounters a jumping spider on an almond tree on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)