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Posts Tagged: Tabatha Yang
A 'Butterfly Open House' at the Bohart Museum on March 19
It's almost spring. Do you know where your butterflies are? Do you know how to attract them to your yard? Greg Kareofelas, a Bohart Museum of...
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas talks to butterfly enthusiasts on a Placer Land and Trust tour looking for the California dogface butterfly, the state insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Framed by hikers, Greg Kareofelas tells the history of the California dogface butterfly, the state insect. This photo was taken on Placer Land and Trust acreage near Auburn. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want to attract monarchs? Plant their larval host plant, milkweeds. Nectar plants? They like Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) and the butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii), among others. This photo shows a monarch on Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want Gulf Fritillaries? Plant their host plant, the passionflower vine. This butterfly is nectaring on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Solano Third Graders Learn the ABC's (of Bugs) from Bohart Museum at Youth Ag Day
Talk about the ABC's! The 3000 third graders who attended the annual Youth Ag Day on Tuesday, March 14 on the Solano County Fairgrounds, Vallejo,...
Tabatha Yang (center) education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks to visitors at the Youth Ag Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Parras McGrath greets the third graders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It was like a photo shoot at the Bohart Museum's booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A wide array of expressions at the Bohart Museum booth. At right are Noah Crockette and Tabatha Yang of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eager third graders ask Parris McGrath if they can hold the Madagascar hissing cockroaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist and Bohart Associate Alex Nguyen answers questions about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Associate Noah Crockette enjoys talking about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Highly Successful Biodiversity Museum Day
They saw bugs. They saw bones. They saw honey bees. They saw hawks. Those were just a few of the offering at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity...
Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden, drew scores of visitors. It's located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youths used vacuum devices for catch-and-release of bees at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (center), who curates the butterfly and moth collections at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bird's eye view of the nematode collection in the Sciences Lab Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis nematology graduate student Chris Pagan talks to visitors at the nematode collection in the Sciences Lab Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A visitor photographs the skin of a male African lion from Tanzania (1960s). Not much else is known about it, said Andrew Engilis, Jr., curator of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology. This was part of a display in the Academic Surge Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Volunteer Billy Thein shows a golden eagle named "Sullivan" at the California Raptor Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Volunteer Diana Munoz shows a red-shouldered hawk, Mikey, at the California Raptor Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin
It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart Museum of Entomology and its parent organization,...
Oh, no, an escapee! Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and KUIC host Barbara Hoover share a laugh as a Madagascar hissing cockroach decides not to star but to escape. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum, introduces KUIC's Barbara Hoover to a walking stick--and it started walking up her arm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang (far left), education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart, entomologist and Bohart associate Wade Spencer, entomology student at UC Davis, introduce KUIC's Barbara Hoover to a tarantula named Coco McFluffin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Camaraderie: Distinguished emeriti professors from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology with Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart and professor of entomology. With her (from left) are Harry Kaya, Robert Washino and Robbin Thorp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene at the start of the KUIC/Bohart coffee break--a mixture of bugs on the wall and sweets on the table. At far left is Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Puts the 'Bio' in Biodiversity Museum Day
"Bio" means "life" or "living things," and that's just what you'll see on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the sixth annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum...
Butterfly specimens will be showcased at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sue Bohannan of Fairfield examines plants in the Botanical Conservatory. She was at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day to lead a Solano County 4-H STEM Project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
