Posts Tagged: Acroceridae
Jessica Gillung Wins Top Student Prize at International Congress of Dipterology
UC Davis doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung, who studies the parasitoid flies commonly known as...
Doctoral candidate Jessica Gillung with specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Thomas Pape of the Natural History Museum of Denmark and chair of the Council for the International Congresses of Dipterology, presents Jessica Gillung with the prize for best student presentation at the recent 9th International Congress of Dipterology in Windhoek, Namibia.
A PiƱata That Only Entomologists Could Love
Have you ever hit a piñata? Hit it and smashed it to smithereens? It was probably a...
The Halloween party invitation from the Bohart Museum of Entomology featured an Acroceridae fly and larva. (Images the work of Nicole Tam, UC Davis alumnus)
UC Davis PhD student Charlotte Herbert as"Maggie the Maggot," and her fiance, George Alberts, as "Farmer Maggot," or his interpreation of Farmer Maggot from "The Lord of Rings." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis PhD students Charlotte Herbert (left) and Jessica Gillung admire the fly pinata, depicting the genus Acrocera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis PhD student Charlotte Herbert takes a swing at the fly pinata that she and her fiance, George Alberts, created for the Bohart Museum of Entomology Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis PhD student Jessica Gillung dressed as a raccoon at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)