Posts Tagged: Coleoptera
The Beatles vs. The Beetles: This T-Shirt Never Fails to Draw Smiles
Remember the celebrated image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John...
A close up of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's all-time best-selling T-shirt, "The Beetles." Each image bears the family name: Phengogidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae.
Bohart Museum: Beetlemania in Photos
They came. They saw. They stayed. And it was all about the beetles: "Beetlemania." Some 500...
A little girl closely examines a display of beetles. In back is Kipling "Kip" Will, associate professor with the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Folsom Lake College professor Fran Keller (right) and UC Davis doctoral student Iris Bright staffed the "Beetles from Belize" collection. Keller leads bio blitz tours to Belize. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Curtis Ewing, a senior environmental scientist with Cal Fire's Forest Entomology and Pathology, answers questions about bark beetles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tracie Hayes, a UC Davis doctoral candidate and burying beetle researcher, checks out her display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect enthusiast Larry Snyder (right) of Davis confers with Kipling "Kip" Will, associate professor with the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors check out a diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus, collected by Bohart Museum research associate Brittany Kohler (right). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Staffing the family arts and crafts table are (left) Allen Chew, Sol Wantz and Kat Taylor, all UC Davis undergraduate students. The participant at right is UC Davis undergraduate student Max Mao. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jonelle Mason (center, left), a UC ANR employee who coordinates Project Learning Tree California, chats with the participants. In the foreground is assistant Kailey Faulkner. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stool help boost this science enthusiast's view of tree cores and boring tools. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beetles! Bohart Museum Open House Set Sunday, Jan. 22
Beetles! And with an exclamation point! That's the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
This is a burying beetle, Nicrophorus germanicus. It buries the carcasses of small vertebrae and uses them as a food source for its larva. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A multicolored Asian beetle and her eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A dung beetle with two ball of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Teacher Extraordinaire
Okay, be honest. If you were attending class at 7:30 a.m., could you get excited about flies? No?...
Fran Keller captured this photo of a halictid bee on Borrichia (seaside tansy). It's included in her Bahamas gallery on her Web site at www.tenebrionid.net.
This is a robber fly with a buprestid beetle on a creosote bush branch in the Algodones Dunes. Fran Keller took this photo and "suffered multiple spines from prickly flowers and sand temperatures of 130 degrees, but it was worth it."
Entomologist Fran Keller (left) and daughter Rachael deVries share a hug on the beach after Fran's recent wedding to entomologist Pat Randolph. Yes, Fran collected insects along the beach. (Photo by Cory Unruh)