Posts Tagged: TODS
They Took Their Daughters and Sons to Work
It was a day to learn and have fun when the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the Häagen-Dazs...
Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, shows a bee to Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven visitor Lalibella Eaves, 6. Her mother, Professor Valerie Fournier, who received her doctorate in entomology at UC Davis, is on sabbatical, based in the Neal Williams lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Valerie Fournier, who holds a doctorate in entomology (2003), studying with Professor Jay Rosenheim, shows insects and California golden poppies to her son Phoenix Eaves, 9, during the TODS Day at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a Carniolan honey bee. The Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven's catch-and-release program during TODS Day was a big attraction. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Erica Ramirez, a fourth-year UC Davis student majoring in history, helped out at the Bohart Museum open house. Here she explains insects to (from left) Fuerte siblings, Camilla, 4; Kailee, 6, and Joel, 8.
It was all in the family at the TODS Day at the Bohart Museum. UC Davis employees Erik Catalan (register's office) and Gaylene Catalan (nutrition) interact with their daughter, Kaori, 9. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A tarantula was a favorite attraction at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work!
It's about connecting. It's about learning where parents work and what they do. It's about...
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta, is the center of attention. The bee, also known as "the teddy bear bee," is frequently found in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Males cannot sting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Those attending the TODS event on April 28 will be able to get up close to this worker bee sculpture, created by Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, shows butterfly specimens to Caleb and Alia Symkowick-Rose of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
From a 'Butterfly Wish' to a Tarantula Named 'Peaches'
What a grand event! When the University of California, Davis held its annual campus "Take Your...
Roxanne Bell, 7, of Davis, decided that Peaches, the rose-haired tarantula, "tickles!" Watching her reaction at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, during "Take Your Daughers (And Sons) to Work" Day is Joel Fuerte, 6, of Woodland. Their mothers work at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Joel Fuerte, 6, of Woodland, eagerly listens to children's author S. S. Dudley, a retired UC Davis scientist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's author S. S. Dudley draws the attention of a crowd listening as he talks about the morpho butterflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)