Posts Tagged: brown
The Myth of the Brown Recluse Spider in California
Have you ever been bitten by a brown recluse spider in California? It's a myth. There are no...
'Mythbusters' Dispel Spider Myths at Bohart Museum Open House
"I just got bit by a brown recluse spider in California." No, you didn't--unless you recently...
The Jason Bond lab held a mythbuster session at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. From left are doctoral candidates Xavier Zahnle and Emma Jochim who led the discussion, and moderator Iris Quayle, a first-year PhD student. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Emma Jochim discusses cellar spiders, crane flies and harvesters. Each is known in various regions of the country by the common name, "daddy long-legs." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How many spiders do you eat in your sleep every year? Doctoral candidate Emma Jochim joked "20" and then said "none." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Both millipedes and centipedes fluoresce under UV light, doctoral candidate Xavier Zahnle related. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Xavier Zahnle points out differences between millipedes and isopods. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
No, "camel spiders cannot jump 4 to 6 feet straight up and eat the stomachs of camels," doctoral candidate Emma Jochim assures the crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Use taste, rather than rind color, to determine when to harvest citrus
Knowing when to harvest any citrus fruit involves the question of its degree of maturity....
Tribute to Bill Patterson and Doris Brown, Strong Supporters of the Bohart Museum of Entomology
The UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES) honored...
Bill Patterson and his wife, Doris Brown (left), listen to the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' Award of Distinction program. At right is Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bill Patterson thanking the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for gifting he and his wife with the Friend of the College award.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
From left are Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; award recipients Bill Patterson and his wife, Doris Brown; and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bill Patterson and Doris Brown: Friends of CA&ES and Friends of Bohart Museum
The UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES) annually singles out...
Entomologist and butterfly collector Bill Patterson looks through a drawer during the international Lepidopterists' Society meeting in 2017 at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum, looks through specimens with Bill Patterson. (Photo by Ashley Han)
Entomologist and butterfly collector Bill Patterson chats with entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, during the international Lepidopterists' Society meeting in 2017 at UC Davis. Both are recipients of the CA&ES Friend of the College Award: Patterson in 2022, and Smith in 2015. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Bill Patterson (center) of Sacramento and the international Lepidopterists' Society president Brian Scholtens (right), entomology professor at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, discuss butterflies with scientist-author Robert Michael Pyle, founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. UC Davis hosted the 2017 meeting of the Lepidopterists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)