Posts Tagged: Moth Night
A Night at the Bohart Museum: Moth Night on Saturday, July 22
Mark your calendar! The next open house at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, themed...
Scene from a recent Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night. The portrait is of UC Davis entomologist Richard Bohart, for whom the Bohart Museum is named. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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)
Gotta Love Those Woolly Bear Caterpillars
You gotta love those woolly bear caterpillars. Richard "Rick" Karban, UC Davis distinguished...
A wooly bear caterpillar investigating an ice plant on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, in April 2022.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The wooly bear caterpillar becomes a tiger moth, Arctia virginalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, What a (Moth) Night This Will Be! A Conversation With Bohart's Lepidoptera Curator Jeff Smith
Oh, what a (moth) night this will be! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis is...
Entomologist Jeff Smith (second from left), curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, talks to visitors at a recent Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youngsters delight in the blacklighting display as they watch moths land on the UV-illuminated white hanging sheet. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum's blacklighting display is an opportunity for folks to learn about moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Moth Night at the Bohart Museum Set July 30
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is celebrating National Moth Night on Saturday, July...
What's on the sheet? In this 2018 photo, UC Davis arachnologist Jason Bond checks for moths while "Moth Man" John De Benedictis observes. Bond, the Schlinder chair of Insect Systematics, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, was recently named associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (in maroon Bohart shirt at left), curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, interacts with guests at the 2018 Bohart Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A youngster looks at the moth display at a recent Bohart Museum of Entomology Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)