Posts Tagged: Lynn Kimsey

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...

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 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)

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 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)

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...

A northern giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, which the news media dubbed "Murder Hornet." (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Department of Agriculture)

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)

A Western yellow jacket, Vespula pensylvanica, at Bodega Bay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's Who Won the Bohart Bumble Bee Contest!

So, you're sitting in your backyard, enjoying some sunshine (sun break!) on the first day of the year, and you hear a bumble bee buzzing in your...

Here's a close-up of what this bumble bee species, Bombus melanopygus, looks like. (Photo taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's a close-up of what this bumble bee species, Bombus melanopygus, looks like. (Photo taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a screen shot from the video taken by Nancy Hansen of Fairfield of the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus.

This is a screen shot from the video taken by Nancy Hansen of Fairfield of the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus.

There's a Bed Bug in My Christmas Stocking!

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the...

UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, holds some of the stocking stuffers available in the Bohart git shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, holds some of the stocking stuffers available in the Bohart git shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

These ticks, plush toy stuffed animals, are plentiful in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

These ticks, plush toy stuffed animals, are plentiful in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Monarch 'Cats Sleeping with the Aphids

Sleeping with the aphids...that's what this monarch caterpillar was doing. It lived--and quite hidden at that--through the freezing cold, the rain,...

A monarch caterpillar sharing a milkweed leaf with oleander aphids on Dec. 8, 2023 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch caterpillar sharing a milkweed leaf with oleander aphids on Dec. 8, 2023 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Milkweed going to seed on Dec. 8, 2023 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Milkweed going to seed on Dec. 8, 2023 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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