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Posts Tagged: spiders
How Many Spiders Have You Saved Today?
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds eating and whey Along came a spider who sat down beside herAnd frightened Miss...
A jumping spider on a yellow rose peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A banded garden spider (Argiope trifasciata) straddling lavender stems. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A redfemured spotted orbweaver, Neoscona domiciliorum, is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black widow spider balances her egg sacs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lunch time! A crab spider feasts on a pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bold jumping spider trying to grab a honey bee. The honey bee did not need saving. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spider Alert! Guess Who's Coming to UC Davis?
Spider alert! If you dislike spiders, you might want to check out the political scene (probably not!), the almond pollination season (yes, it's...
A jumping spider eyes the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black widow spider protecting her egg sacs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A banded garden spider checking out its surroundings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A garden spider lying in wait for prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crab spider nails a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Professor Jason Bond: Why Taxonomists Are Sorely Needed
It's a thought-provoking podcast that you won't want to miss. Shouldn't we be paying more attention to the undiscovered life on this planet...
This is a female Cryptocteniza kawtak, discovered by UC Davis professor Jason Bond at Moss Landing State Park, Monterey County. He has described more than 100 new taxa--families, genera, species of spiders and millipedes. (Photo by Jason Bond)
Screen shot of the New Species podcast hosted by L. Brian Patrick. The podcast on "Taxonomic Impediment," featuring UC Davis professor Jason Bond, is Episode 21.
About Those Urban Myths in Entomology
Professor Lynn Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology,...
It's an urban myth that "Female mantids always eat males they mate with." Lynn Kimsey's response: "Only if the male isn't fast enough." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Urban myth: "Butterflies and moths can't fly if you rub the scales off their wings." Says Lynn Kimsey: "Not true, they can fly." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lovin' the Insects and Spiders? Visit the Bohart's Online Gift Shop
"Spiders are everywhere," Professor Jason Bond told the crowd at his April 2019 town-hall presentation at the Bohart Museum of...
Museum scientist Fran Keller in the gift shop of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. A professor at Folsom Lake College, she is an alumnus of UC Davis, with a doctorate in entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Books for all ages are shelved in Bohart Museum's gift shop, now online. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
