Posts Tagged: paper
Bohart Museum: How to Make a Paper Wasp Nest
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house on "Social Wasps" from 1 to 4...
The makings of a European paper wasp nest in Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A fully occupied European paper wasp nest on a Vacaville fence. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wasps: Fascinating Insects But Often Demonized
If you hate wasps, and brush them off as just "uninvited guests at my picnic," take another...
A honey bee and a Western yellowjacket meet on a rose at a UC Davis bee garden. Both are pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A foraging European paper wasp, Polistes dominula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The antennae of the European paper wasp are orange. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The antennae of the Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, are black. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ever Seen a Wasp Colony in a Frog's Mouth?
In real life, frogs eat flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps and other insects. But have you ever...
Adrienne R. Shapiro of Davis captured this image of a nesting European paper wasps in the mouth of a garden frog statue in a Davis neighborhood. (Photo courtesy of Adrienne R. Shapiro)
A European paper wasp nest in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A European paper wasp peeks over a yellow rose in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
European paper wasps exiting a nest in a recycling bin at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellowjacket drinking water on a hot day. Its black antennae distinguish it from the orange-tipped antennae of the European paper wasp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2022 Calendar: Delightful!
The newly published UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology calendar is DCI:...
"Bees being shipped across country stored in trucks or vans are shown to cause more stress," wrote one student on an Entomology 100 term paper that appears on the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2022 calendar. (Illustration by Kris Merritt)
"Drones are male bees that contribute only in the perm production for the queen," wrote a student in Lynn Kimsey's class. Kris Merritt illustrated it on the 2022 Bohart Museum calendar.
Our research on Argentine ant IPM
Our research on Argentine ant IPM was published in August 2021 issue of Journal of Economic...