Posts Tagged: Jeff Smith
Know Your ABC's: Arthropods, Bohart and Collecting
Folks are looking forward to the next open house at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis. It's set Saturday, Sept. 28 from 1 to 4 p.m....
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with a drawer of monarch specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a male monarch on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a female monarch on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Moths and Butterflies: What Are the Differences?
What are the differences between moths and butterflies? That was a key question asked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's annual Moth Night,...
Iris Quayle of the laboratory of Jason Bond, director of the Bohart Museum, explains the differences between moths and butterflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral candidate Iris Quayle answering questions from the visitors at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith (left), curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, and Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas talk to open house attendees and show moth specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith: Busy as a Bee? No, As Industrious as a Lepidopterist
Busy as a bee? No, as industrious as a Lepidopterist. Specifically, as industrious and dedicated as Jeff Smith, curator of the moth and...
Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection, chats with visitors at an open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Legendary Lepidopterists Paul Opler (left) and Robert Michael Pyle, founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, chat during the international Lepidopterist Society’s 68th annual conference (2019) that included visits to the Bohart Museum. Opler, who died last year, considered the Bohart Museum Lepidoptera collection "The Bold Standard" of Lep collections. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Revisiting the Issue of Monarch Butterflies Missing from California Classrooms
A monarch butterfly caterpillar goes through five stages or instars before it J's and becomes a jade-green chrysalis. Scientists estimate...
A monarch caterpillar crawling on a milkweed leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male monarch butterfly foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifola) in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatle Garvey)
Sheep Moths Draw Attention at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
Unless you're an entomologist, moth enthusiast, or an avid follower of National Moth Week, you may have never seen or heard...
The late Mike Smith, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran who retired in Folsom, looks over his collection. The sheep moths he collected are now in the Bohart Museum. He passed in 2003. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, chats with Sacramento residents Skylan Potter, 11, and her mother, Camille Potter, holding son, Kehlan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains moth specimens to Katie Dietrich and her son, Andrew, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection, shows moths to Andrew Dietrich of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas, and scientist Sophia Acker of the Del Castillo lab, UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, display a drawer of sheep moths, Hemileuca eglanterina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)