Posts Tagged: Linnaean Games

The Answers

Okay, what are the answers? In a prior blog, we listed several questions asked at the Linnaean Games, a...

Pondering a Question

PONDERING A QUESTION are (from left) the UC Riverside team of Jennifer Henke, Casey Butler, Jason Mottern and Rebeccah Waterworth. UC Riverside won the Linnaean Games. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yes!

WE WON!--Casey Butler exults as he breaks the dead heat, giving UC Riverside the win in the 2008 Linnaean Games. From left are Jennifer Henke, Casey Butler, Jason Mottern and Rebeccah Waterworth at the moment they realized they'd won. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Team

UC DAVIS TEAM--Pondering a question are (from left) Hillary Thomas, Andrew Pedersen, Dominic Reisig and Michael Branstetter. Pederson and Reisig study with their major professor Larry Godfrey, who was on the University of Kentucky championship team in 1983 that won the second annual Linnean Games. Thomas' major professor is Frank Zalom and Branstetter's major professor is Phil Ward. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Let the Games Begin

Quick! Name three states that have no official state insect. That was one of the questions at the Linnaean Games, a traditional part of the...

Tom Turpin

LINNAEAN GAMES MODERATOR--Purdue entomology professor Tom Turpin moderates the annual Linnaean Games, part of the Entomological Society of America's annual meeting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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