Posts Tagged: Steve Heydon
Three Insect-Related Events at Aggie Spirit Week: That's the Spirit!
That's the spirit! What better way to celebrate Aggie Spirit Week, Oct. 10-16, on the UC Davis...
This image shows scientific illustrator Mary Foley Benson at age 21 in 1926 when she was employed by the USDA.
Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum and Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator, confer on a display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a popular attraction at the Bohart Museum's live "petting zoo." Visitors can hold, pet and take images of them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A stick insect, aka walking stick, crawls on an arm at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Live insects are part of the museum's petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology: Weird and Wonderful Wasps
Visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Weird and Wonderful Wasps,"...
An image of a Jerusalem cricket flashes on the screen as postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomologist who studies flies, answers questions from visitors. He studies at UC Davis and at the California Department of Food and Agriculture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis student and Bohart volunteer Elizabeth Gromfin (on left) works at the arts-and-crafts table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, lifts a drawer of specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum senior museum scientist Steve Heydon answers a visitor's question. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas shows specimens to Defne Peterson and her children, Dylan, 6, and Ender, 4. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey Bees Weren't the Only Insects at California Honey Festival
Honey bees weren't the only insects at the 2022 California Honey Festival, held Saturday, May 7 in...
Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum of Entomology's education and outreach coordinator, "talks bugs" with visitors at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis undergraduate students Pichawi "Salee" Sangrawiakararat (left) and Lauren Spellman check out the Peruvian stick insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology table at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smile! UC Davis students Pichawi "Salee" Sangrawiakararat (left) and Lauren Spellman take images of the Peruvian stick insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a Peruvian walking stick (stick insect). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator and senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology greet visitors at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Science of Nematodes, Butterflies, Millipedes and Arachnids
Do you know what a nematode is? That's a question that nematologists are frequently asked. Well,...
Nematologist Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presenting a video on nematology. (Screen shot)
UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman offers a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection in this video. (Screen shot)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, gives an overview of how the museum collects, preserves and identifies some of its nearly 8 million insects. (Screen shot)
Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, talks about common millipedes in the Sacramento-San Francisco region in this video. (Screen shot)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains how to pin and spread butterfly and moths for display. (Screen shot)
UC Davis doctoral student Lacie Newton of the Jason Bond lab talks about arachnids in her video. (Screen shot)
Of Nematodes, Butterflies, Moths, Millipedes and Arachnids...
Nematodes, butterflies, moths, arachnids, millipedes, and how to collect, preserve and identify...
Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presents a video on nematodes. (Screen shot)
Diane Ullman, professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, presents a virtual tour of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection. (Screen shot)
Xavier Zahnle, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond lab, presents a video on millipedes. (Screen shot)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, shows how to spread and pin the insects in this video. (Screen shot)
Lacie Newton, a doctoral student in the Jason Bond, talks about arachnids in this video. (Screen shot)