Posts Tagged: Penny Gullan

What's in the Sunflowers?

So you're walking through a sunflower field and you're seeing lots of honey bees foraging on the flowers. But wait, look over there. Are those beetles? They are. Melyrid or blister beetles (Melyridae family) and spotted cucumber beetles...

Melyrid beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Melyrid beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotted cucumber beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotted cucumber beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How to Flush Out a Praying Mantis

So you want to capture an image of a praying mantis. You have to find one first. Sometimes it's a case of hide 'n seek--it hides, you seek. Mantises, or mantids, are camouflaged. Many camouflaged (cryptic) insects are "sit-and-wait predators," write...

Praying mantis on a watered tomato plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis on a watered tomato plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis licks water from its forelegs, specialized to seize prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis licks water from its forelegs, specialized to seize prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis rests on a tomato vine prior to flying to a nearby tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis rests on a tomato vine prior to flying to a nearby tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Long Awaited: The Insects

The Insects are coming. The Insects are coming. That would be the fourth edition of The Insects: An Outline of Entomology,  the newly published work of professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston (at right) of the UC Davis Department of...

Textbook Cover

TEXTBOOK COVER of "The Insects: An Outline of Entomology." The textbook, considered "the gold standard of entomology books," will be available in the United States in March. It is the work of UC Davis professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston.

Tongue-Tied

Blue merle mini-Australian shepherds have one. So do honey bees. What? A tongue. For a puppy, the tongue can symbolize pure happiness. For a worker honey bee: a solid work ethic. It's easy to take a photo of a happy puppy with her tongue hanging out,...

Happy puppy

Blue merle mini-Australian shepherds have one: a tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Industrious honey bee

Just like the puppy above, the industrious honey bee has a tongue, too, or what entomologists call "mouthparts." Here's a pollen-dusted bee in the UC Davis Aboretum nectaring a flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Down Under and on Deadline

They're Down Under and on deadline. Entomology professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston of the University of California, Davis, are finishing the fourth edition of their popular...

Douglas Williams and Penny Gullan

STUDYING INSECTS--University of California, Davis entomologist Penny Gullan, a native of Australia, and noted British entomologist Douglas Williams collaborate on insect scale taxonomy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Peter Cranston

UC DAVIS ENTOMOLOGIST Peter Cranston looks over posters at the Entomological Society of America meeting, held recently in Reno. He and colleague Penny Gullan are now finishing the fourth edition of their textbook, "The Insects." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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