Posts Tagged: silkworm moths
Silkworm Moths Draw Widespread Interest at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
Interest in silkworm moths soared high at the recent UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open...
Silkworm moth expert, İsmail Şeker, a Turkish medical doctor and author of a silkworm moth book, answers questions from the crowd at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The adult silkmoth cannot fly, İsmail Şeker tells the Bohart Museum of Entomology visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
İsmail Şeker with his book containing his macrophotographs.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The silkworm moth display included eggs, larvae, pupae and adults. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cora Tatum, 3, of Davis, checks out her newly created finger puppet--a silkworm cocoon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: How to Raise Insects
Like to learn how to raise insects? Insects such as monarch butterflies, praying mantids and...
A praying mantis depositing an egg mass, ootheca. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Madagascar hissing cockroaches can be good "starter pets." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Moth Night at Bohart Museum of Entomology on Saturday, Aug. 3
Ready to celebrate Moth Night? The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host its annual Moth...
"Moth Man" and Bohart Museum associate John DeBenedictis (right) greets Moth Night visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 2018 event. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Atlas moth specimens will be shown at the Bohart Museum on Moth Day. The Atlas moth is found in the rainsforests of Asia. One of the largest moths in the world, it has a wingspan that can measure 10 to 11 inches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the first scarab beetle to arrive at the Bohart Museum's blacklighting last year. It's a Polyphylla sp. or lined June beetle, as identified by beetle expert Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College. She received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepitopdera (moths and butterflies) section at the Bohart Museum, talks to visitors during Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not a Failure to Communicate
The female silkworm moth releases a sex pheromone, bombykol, that's very enticing to the male. He...
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Scent of a Female