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Posts Tagged: social wasps
Lawn-pocalypse! Surviving Drought
Ah, summer! The season of sunburns, pool parties, and… lawn droughts. If your once lush, green carpet now looks like a crunchy brown doormat, you're not alone. Let's dive into why your yard is staging a dramatic death scene and what you can do to...
Bermuda grass and weeds overtaking drought stressed turf grass.
Social Wasps Are Great Artists and Architects, But So Are....
When it comes to building nests, social wasps are great artists and architects. But so were the participants in the family arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on social wasps, held Saturday, Jan. 20 in Room...
Bohart Museum of Entomology set out instructions on how to make a paper mache wasp nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Skylan Potter, 11, of Sacramento works on creating a wasp nest at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. In back are her mother, Camille Potter, and baby brother, Kehlan Kaufeldt, age 1; Tabatha Yang, Bohart education and outreach coordinator and Bohart associate Andrew Logan, who staffed the table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Skylan Potter displays her newly created social wasp nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Camille Potter and her daughter, Skylan and son, Kehlan, Sacramento, admire a species of robber fly (family Asilidae) at the entrance to the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate and entomologist Sandy Shanks (right) and researcher and retired senior museum scientist Steve Heydon (partially hidden) answer questions about Hymenoptera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis distingished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions on social wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20, the traditional family art-and-crafts activity will be something special. "We will be doing paper mache wasp nests; I'm...
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 look. For one, they're pollinators. Two, they're great predators, contributing to the biocontrol of such lepidopteran pests as...
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)
Bohart Museum Open House: Get Acquainted with Social Wasps
Let's be social! How much do you know about social wasps? Would you like to engage in a "meet-and-greet" with them and talk to a wasp expert? UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, will...
A northern giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, which the news media dubbed "Murder Hornet." (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture)
A Western yellow jacket, Vespula pensylvanica, at Bodega Bay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
