Posts Tagged: arachnids
Insect and Arachnid-Inspired T-Shirts Are All the Fashion
Love insects and arachnids? Members of the Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) of...
UC Davis doctoral students Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab and Mia Lippey of the labs of UC Davis distinguished professor Jay Rosenheim and assistant professor Emily Meineke, show some of the EGSA T-shirts. Lippey serves as EGSA president, and Quayle as treasurer.
These are some of the T-shirts that EGSA sells as part of their year-around fundraising project.
Spectacular
October is tarantula season in the foothills! Male tarantulas of the species Aphonopelma iodius are...
Professor Jason Bond: President-Elect of American Arachnological Society
Jason Bond, professor and the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair of the UC Davis...
Arachnid Open House Draws Large Crowd
Arachnids rule! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, "Eight-Legged...
Associate Dean Jason Bond of UC Davis and Professor Eileen Hebets of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, at the "Eight Legged Encounters" open house, hosted by the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the American Arachnological Society. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Fran Keller (standing at right) of Folsom Lake College and a UC Davis doctoral alumnus, assisted at the open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Activity tables at the Bohart Museum of Entomology/AAS open house stayed busy throughout the event. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Iris Bright (blue shirt, far right) and Lisa Chamberland (foreground) of the Bond lab discuss trapdoor spiders and urge visitors to suggest a name for a new species. Bright will be a first-year doctoral student in the fall and Chamberland is a postdoctoral research associate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Shaked Hoffman, 5, of Davis, listens to the arachnid dialogue. His mother Iael Raij-Hoffman, is a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youngsters treasuring newly crafted spiders suggest a name for a new trapdoor species. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Five-year-old Shaked Hoffman of Davis expresses intense interest in the spider conversation. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Postdoctoral researcher and Ukraine native Severyn Korneyev of the Bohart Museum of Entomology shows visitors specimens of spider wasps and small-headed flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spiders Are Awesome!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are a series of photos taken at an open house...
Shaked Hoffman, 5, of Davis, listens intently to an arachnologist talking about spiders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marta Erismann, 8, of Sacramento arrives with her father, Fernando Erismann. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Alexis Rainwater, 8, of Woodland, delights in chatting with Iris Bright of the Jason Bond lab. "Alexis likes spiders," her mother said. "And she's a model." Bright will be a first-year doctoral student in the fall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eleanor Bielski, 21 months old, is awed by a jarred spider specimen held by her mother, Laura McKay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Nine-year-old twins Vedant (left) and Siddharth Revo of San Jose participated in all the activities at the open house. Siddharth is holding a spider he crafted.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
There were smiles all around at the Bohart Museum/AAS Open house in the Academic Surge Building. A banner, "Eight-Legged Encounters," drew them in. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)