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Posts Tagged: Phil Ward
Colony of Red Ants Roams the Bohart Museum of Entomology
A colony of red ants recently roamed the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They really weren't red ants, but children wearing ant headgear, created...
UC Davis first-year entomology student Kat Taylor (in ant headgear) staffed the arts-and-crafts table at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Five-year-old twins Lucas and Logan Cheuk of Woodland created these striking hats. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Esmeralda Myhre, 2, works on her art project. Her mother, Morgan Myhre, is a UC Davis senior majoring in entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis senior entomology major Morgan Myrhe adjusts the ant headgear on her son, Galileo, 5, while her daughter, Esmeralda, 2, watches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis senior entomology major Morgan Myhre shows her daughter, Esmeralda, 2, some of the Bohart Museum's insect/spider tenants. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Ants, Hissers, Sticks and More
Come for the ants, stay for the hissers. Or come for the hissers, stay for the ants. Either way, it's all good. When the Bohart Museum of...
A velvety tree ant encounters a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want to hold a hisser (Madagascar hissing cockroach)? You can at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees Are Your Buddies; Ants Are Your Friends
If bees are your buddies, ants ought to be your friends, right? Right. They belong to the same order, Hymenoptera, but some folks insist...
These are carpenter ants, Camponotus semitestaceus, as identified by UC Davis 2020 alumnus and ant researcher Brendon Boudinot, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. (Photo taken in Vacaville, Calif. by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Phil Ward lab members are ready to answer your questions about ants. From left are Jill Oberski and Zach Griebenow, both doctoral candidates, and third-year doctoral student Ziv Lieberman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mark Your Calendars: Three Bohart Museum Open Houses
Mark your calendars! The Bohart Museum of Entomology has scheduled three open houses between now and Saturday, July 22. The first open house is...
Forensic entomologist Robert "Bob" Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host a "Night at the Museum" from 7 to 11 p.m., Saturday, July 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: A Great Time to Talk Ants
How did you spend your Presidents' Day weekend? Well, if you were high school student Ziya Akmal, he journeyed--by car--nearly 400...
Got an ant question? From left are members of the Phil Ward ant lab at UC Davis: doctoral candidates Jill Oberski and Zachary Griebenow, and third-year doctoral student Ziv Lieberman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Jill Oberski answers questions from Ziya Akmal of Los Angeles. Akmal made the 400-mile trip to talk to Professor Phil Ward and the Ward lab members at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral alumnus Brendon Boudinot (foreground), now an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, answers questions at the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. Seated are doctoral candidate Jill Oberski and graduate student Ziv Lieberman of the Phil Ward lab. In back is doctoral candidate Zachary Griebenow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
