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Posts Tagged: open house
Food for Thought and Food for the Monarchs
Is tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, a "bad" plant? Should Californians pull it from their gardens? No, say many scientists, including...
A tiny monarch egg, about the size of a pin head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Monarchs on the Move: A Migration and a Bohart Museum Open House
It's Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 1 and a female monarch butterfly flutters into our Vacaville pollinator garden. Me: "Welcome Ms. Monarch! Aren't...
A female monarch butterfly sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed on Wednesday, Nov. 1 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The female monarch spreads her wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A little flight fuel and the monarch is off to an overwintering site along coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Got a Question About Monarch Butterflies? Bohart Open House on Nov. 4
Want to talk to a scientist about monarch butterflies? Then you'll want to attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on...
A monarch butterfly nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wings up! A monarch takes flight in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Collecting Insects and Making Insect Collecting Jars
Visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house learned about such "household vampires" as mosquitoes, fleas, lice, ticks and...
UC Davis entomology senior Sol Wantz, president of the Entomology Club, showed open house visitors how to make an insect collecting jar or "kill" jar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum intern Melody Ruiz, a third-year UC Davis entomology major, staffed the "Clear Packing Tape Art" table. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Alina Franco, 11, of Woodland, was eager to see the morpho butterflies at the Bohart Museum. With her is entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Scientists at the Bohart open house included (from left) medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey, and Bohart director Lynn Kimsey, all of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty; California Department of Food and Agriculture retiree Mike Pitcairn; and UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal, former chair of the Entomology Department. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An 'Invasion' of Household Vampires at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
They saw mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice and bed bugs at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Household Vampires." They...
CC Edwards (left), a doctoral student and mosquito research in the lab of UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, answers questions about mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Luz Maria Robles, public information officer, Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control, answers a question about West Nile disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Luz Maria Robles, public information officer, Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control, points out live mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Moriah Garrison, senior entomologist and research coordinator with Carroll-Loye Biological Research (CLBR), showed live ticks and other "household vampires." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo is pictured next to one of his mosquito images. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey (foreground) explains what Davis residents Francisco Flores and son Azeez, 6, are seeing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Christofer Brothers, who studies dragonflies, chats with UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
