Posts Tagged: Xavier Zahnle
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)
Even Spiders Are Irish on St. Patrick's Day...See 'Em at Bohart Open House on March 18
On St. Patrick's Day, everybody and everything is Irish. That includes spiders. You've seen those...
A jumping spider--note the green "fangs" (chelicerae)--peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A jumping spider ready to prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A green lynx spider is easy to spot on this pink rockrose blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House on March 18: From Eight-Legged Wonders to Many-Legged Wonders
You can never have too many legs. Following on the heels of its 2022 open house on "Eight-Legged...
This is Peaches, a Chilean rose hair tarantula (Grammostola rosea) in the Bohart Museum's live petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet Coco McFluffin, a Chaco golden knee tarantula (Grammostola pulchripes). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A millipede from the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Many-Legged Wonders at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
Last year the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open house themed "Eight-Legged...
Meet Coco McFluffin, a resident tarantula in the Bohart Museum's live petting zoo. It's a Chaco golden knee tarantula (Grammostola pulchripes), native to Paraguay and Argentina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of a millipede from the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a mixture of hands and one millipede as a transfer occurs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)