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Posts Tagged: dragonflies
Bohart Museum Open House: Dragonflies Rule!
Dragonflies rule! That was the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, and dragonflies do just...
Noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison shows a slide of Cora semiopaca at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dragonfly experts at the Bohart Museum open house included Sandra Hunt-von Arb, with the Pacific Northwest Biological Resources Consultants, Inc.; Andy Rehn, stream ecologist with California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Rosser Garrison, formerly with the California Department of Food and Agriculture; and Greg Kareofelas, Bohart associate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Christofer Brothers (left), a UC Davis doctoral student studying dragonflies, and Christopher Beatty, a visiting visiting scholar in the Program for Conservation Genomics at Stanford University, offered their expertise at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Christopher Beatty, a visiting scholar in the Program for Conservation Genomics at Stanford University, is a co-editor and co-author of this newly published book, "Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research," second edition. Fresh from the printers, it was among the dragonfly books displayed at the open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This Bohart Museum display includes the world's largest dragonfly, Petalura ingentissima, discovered in 1908 in North Queensland, Australia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rosser Garrison answers questions following his seminar on dragonflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum showcased dragonfly images by Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. Here Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart, admires a river jewelwing, Calopteryx aequabilis, that Kareofelas photographed at the Klamath River. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day--No, Make that DragonFLY Day
It's Friday Fly Day--no, let's switch that insect order from Diptera to Odonata and make it "DragonFLY Day." Better yet, let's make...
A flameskimmer, Libellula saturata, with prey. This image was taken in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A flameskimmer perched on a garden stick in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't Miss the Dragonfly Open House Nov. 6 at Bohart Museum of Entomology
Dragonflies rule and so do the scientists who study them. Be sure to attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on...
UC Davis student Christofer Brown presents a program on dragonflies to middle schoolers enrolled in the UC Davis Bio Boot Camp, held in the summer of 2022. This image was taken by Putah Creek. (Tabatha Yang Photo)
This is the black petaltail, Tanypteryz hageni, an image from the Inner Coast Range. "It's seldom seen and our most primitive dragonfly," said Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Cristofer Brothers is a fourth-year animal behavior doctoral student at UC Davis.
Dragonfly Enthusiasts, Unite! Open House Set Nov. 6 at Bohart Museum
If you dragonflies fascinate you, and you wish to know more about them, be sure to attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house at UC Davis...
This is an American rubyspot, Hetaerina americana, photographed at a small stream in the inner Coast Range. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a river jewelwing, Calopteryx aequabilis, photographed at the Klamath River. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a white-belted ringtail, Erpetogomphus compositus, photographed in a small stream in the inner Coast Range. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a red flameskimmer, Libellula saturata, photographed in a Vacaville yard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the black petaltail, Tanypteryx hageni, an image from the Inner Coast Range. "It's seldom seen and our most primitive dragonfly," said Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Sneak Peak at a Couple of Solano County Fair Entries
A sneak peak at a couple of Solano County Fair entries...think insects! The COVID-19 pandemic derailed fairs and festivals, but now they're back on...
Heather DeGroot of Vallejo, coordinator of the McCormack Hall exhibits, Solano County Fair, shows a watercolor by Richard Laswell of Rio Vista that depicts three dragonflies. In back is an oils-acrylic butterfly by Ashley Workman of Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Heather DeGroot displays an image of a syrphid fly and honey bee, the work of 17-year-old Matthew Agbayani of the Vaca Valley 4-H Club, Vacaville.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Talented artist Iris Mayhew of American Canyon entered these pieces in the Solano County Fair. She drew inspiration from her safari in Kenya. Her work will be displayed June 16-19 in McCormack Hall. She'll be depicting monarchs and Gulf Fritillaries next. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Syrphid flies are often mistaken for honey bees. Here a fly shares a blanketflower (Gaillardia) with a jumping spider, unaware of its presence. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
