Posts Tagged: entomology

Learning About the Bees and the Nutrition They Need

If you missed the eagerly anticipated UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada, an associate professor at Texas A&M and an international leader in honey bee research, not to worry. Her...

A screen shot from the seminar of apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada of Texas A&M.

A screen shot from the seminar of apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada of Texas A&M.

Happy Arachtober!

It's October and Arachtober: the month to celebrate spiders and other arachnids. As arachnologists will tell you, arachnids are arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and...

Pretty in pink. A jumping spider on a pink rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pretty in pink. A jumping spider on a pink rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pretty in yellow. A jumping spider on a yellow rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pretty in yellow. A jumping spider on a yellow rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pretty in green. A jumping spider on green vegetation in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pretty in green. A jumping spider on green vegetation in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Zeroing in on Honey Bees

The next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology promises to be of great interest to bee scientists, beekeepers, and all those who want to learn more about honey bees. An international leader in honey bee...

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For the Love of Insects

How many kids have you seen running and screaming every time they encounter an insect? Maybe not so much when it's a lady beetle (aka ladybug), or a butterfly. But Madagascar hissing cockroaches and stick insects sometimes get many a "yecch"...

Thea Schmidt, 4, of Folsom points excitedly to the tenants of the live petting zoo at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Thea Schmidt, 4, of Folsom points excitedly to the tenants of the live petting zoo at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Thea Schmidt, 4, delights in holding a stick insect in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Thea Schmidt, 4, delights in holding a stick insect in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Elliot Sauder, 7, and his sister Sutton, 9, of Sacramento are eager to look at a butterfly specimen under a microscope at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Elliot Sauder, 7, and his sister Sutton, 9, of Sacramento are eager to look at a butterfly specimen under a microscope at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Elliot Sauder, 7, peers at a specimen under a microscope. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Elliot Sauder, 7, peers at a specimen under a microscope. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's More Fun Than Netting a Butterfly?

What's more fun that netting a butterfly? Netting two (or more) butterflies. UC Davis doctoral candidate and dragonfly researcher Christofer Brothers showed youngsters how to net butterflies--paper butterflies, that is--at the...

Braden Nguyen, 3, of Davis, stretches to net a paper butterfly tossed by UC Davis doctoral student Christofer Brothers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Braden Nguyen, 3, of Davis, stretches to net a paper butterfly tossed by UC Davis doctoral student Christofer Brothers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Eighteen-month-old Owen Nguyen of Davis checks out a vial holding a bug. At right is UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Eighteen-month-old Owen Nguyen of Davis checks out a vial holding a bug. At right is UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Future entomologists? The Nguyen brothers of Davis--Branden, 3, and Owen, 18 months old--pose with UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Future entomologists? The Nguyen brothers of Davis--Branden, 3, and Owen, 18 months old--pose with UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Owen Nguyen, 18 months old, looks at a bee vacuum at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. Scientists use these to capture, identify and release bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Owen Nguyen, 18 months old, looks at a bee vacuum at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. Scientists use these to capture, identify and release bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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