Posts Tagged: stick insects
Booking Insects at Vacaville Public Library: Bring 'em On!
It's so quiet at times that you can almost hear a bee buzz or a walking stick walk or a Madagascar...
The Bohart Museum of Entomology insect presentation fascinates these youngsters at the Vacaville Public Library. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How many of you like insects? Hands shoot up at the Bohart Museum presentation at the Vacaville Public Library. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator, discusses the diversity of insects to a diverse crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang hands out insects from the Bohart Museum of Entomology's petting zoo to eager youngsters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Madagascar hissing cockroach draws attention. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
One of the most popular insects: a Great Thin Stick Insect (Ramulus nenatodes). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eager hands await their turn. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A pre-schooler takes an image of an insect with a borrowed cell phone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A line of viewers at the display of the Bohart Museum's pinned specimens, gathered from all over the world. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Grace Murray, 13, relaxing with a stick insect. Her mother, Kristen Murray, is a children's librarian. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How a Newly Described Bacteria Species Got the Kimsey Name
A newly described bacteria species found more than a decade ago inside the gut of a stick insect...
Former UC Davis doctoral student Matan Shelomi described a new bacteria species from the gut of a Giant New Guinea Stick Insect, Eurycantha calcarata. This is a E. calcarata from the Bohart Museum. Shelomi named the bacteria after UC Davis faculty members Lynn and Bob Kimsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum: Beetlemania in Photos
They came. They saw. They stayed. And it was all about the beetles: "Beetlemania." Some 500...
A little girl closely examines a display of beetles. In back is Kipling "Kip" Will, associate professor with the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Folsom Lake College professor Fran Keller (right) and UC Davis doctoral student Iris Bright staffed the "Beetles from Belize" collection. Keller leads bio blitz tours to Belize. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Curtis Ewing, a senior environmental scientist with Cal Fire's Forest Entomology and Pathology, answers questions about bark beetles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tracie Hayes, a UC Davis doctoral candidate and burying beetle researcher, checks out her display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect enthusiast Larry Snyder (right) of Davis confers with Kipling "Kip" Will, associate professor with the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors check out a diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus, collected by Bohart Museum research associate Brittany Kohler (right). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Staffing the family arts and crafts table are (left) Allen Chew, Sol Wantz and Kat Taylor, all UC Davis undergraduate students. The participant at right is UC Davis undergraduate student Max Mao. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jonelle Mason (center, left), a UC ANR employee who coordinates Project Learning Tree California, chats with the participants. In the foreground is assistant Kailey Faulkner. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stool help boost this science enthusiast's view of tree cores and boring tools. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Interview with a Budding Scientist
Teach 'em young, they say. Encourage them to learn about insects, spiders and other critters at a...
Brandon DeGroot,6, examines the bug he just collected outside McCormack Hall, Solano County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brandon DeGroot monitors how a bug crawls. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brandon DeGroot gets a closer look at his bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When you first meet 6-year-old Brandon DeGroot, he'll tell you "I love spiders and snakes" and he'll flash a big smile. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey Bees Weren't the Only Insects at California Honey Festival
Honey bees weren't the only insects at the 2022 California Honey Festival, held Saturday, May 7 in...
Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator, "talks bugs" with visitors at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis undergraduate students Pichawi "Salee" Sangrawiakararat (left) and Lauren Spellman check out the Peruvian stick insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology table at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smile! UC Davis students Pichawi "Salee" Sangrawiakararat (left) and Lauren Spellman take images of the Peruvian stick insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a Peruvian walking stick (stick insect). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator and senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology greet visitors at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)