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Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum Society
No Predation at Bohart Museum of Entomology's Pre-Halloween Party
If you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology's private party, hosted by the Bohart Museum Society for its members and friends, you...
UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey (center), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, thanks UC Davis biology lab manager and UC Davis alumna Ivana Li (far left), who catered the party. Also pictured (from left) Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev and his wife, artist Kristina Kernytska, UC Davis alumna Brittany Kohler and Tabatha Yang, Bohart education and outreach coordinator. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A praying mantis pays "no predatory attention" to a queen bee at the Bohart Museum's pre-Halloween party. From left are Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum as a queen bee; Kristen Bond, Bohart associate; and Tabatha Yang, Bohart education and outreach coordinator dressed as a mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis first-year doctoral student CC Edwards and UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Edwards chat at the Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers wore a green darner dragonfly costume to the Bohart Museum of Entomology's pre-Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Allen Chew's self-created horse fly costume drew lots of praise. Also pictured are (far left) arachnologist-geneticist Jim Starrett, and (far right) Dick Meyer, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus who retired from a medical entomology career. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cutting the cake are Bohart Museum postdoctoral researcher Socrates Letana; UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, professor, Folsom Lake College; and UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Wonder of Water Bears, and Soon, a Sculpture at the Bohart
What a wonderful idea! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis boasts one of the world's largest tardigrade (water bear) collections, and what...
An artist's conception of a tardigrade sculpture in front of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
Yes, Locusts Browse Computer Dating Sites
Do locusts browse computer dating sites, trying to find a match made in heaven? They do. Just check out the Bohart Museum of Entomology's newly...
This is the illustration that Karissa Merritt, UC Davis entomology major and artist, created for the Bohart Museum of Entomology calendar for the month of January. The calendar is available to the public for $12.
This banded-winged grasshopper--family Acrididae, subfamily Oedipodinae--apparently has little interest in checking out dating sites on the computer. Kathy Keatley Garvey captured this image on the UC Davis campus in September 2011; identification by Bohart senior museum scientist Steve Heydon.
If You're Into Insects...and Good Causes...
If you're into insects--who isn't?--and want to support the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, here's how: join the...
A Peruvian walking stick changes hands among children visiting the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey, a professor of entomology at UC Davis, directs the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How many insects are there? The scientists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will tell you. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
