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Posts Tagged: Robert Kimsey
Bita Rostami: Practicum Project Published in Prestigious Journal
This is a success story about a former animal biology student, two professors, her practicum and its publication in a prestigious...
Bita Rostami (center) with fellow researchers, Logan Ruggles and Marissa Lopez, at the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve in San Jose. This project was part of the California Ecology and Conservation, UC Natural Reserve System. They were measuring the abundance of yarrow, Achillea millefolium, in burned out areas and unburned areas of the reserve. (Photo by Logan Ruggles)
Meet Dr. Bob--aka 'Dr. Death'--at UC Davis Picnic Day
If you visit the Dr. Death booth (it's actually a table!) at Briggs Hall during the 108th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 23, you'll...
Visitors at the 2019 UC Davis Picnic Day take images of forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and his display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert "Bob" Kimsey at Alcatraz Island. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Top Secret: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Is Really a Praying Mantis
Sorry, contrary to popular opinion and Western lore, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is NOT a reindeer. He's a mantis. A masked...
Giddy-up! Santa, being the jolly ol' gent he is, drives The Red-Nosed Mantis in front of the Davis home of entomologists Robert and Lynn Kimsey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Lynn Kimsey)
This praying mantis, photographed in Vacaville, Calif., waits to ambush prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect-Themed Items! Bohart Museum Opens Virtual Gift Shop for Online Sales
If the year 2020 "bugged" you, you're not alone. It certainly did the insect museum, the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of...
Bohart Museum associate Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College who holds a doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, helps customers at the Bohart gift shop in this pre-COVID-19 image. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon checks out a t-shirt in the Bohart Museum gift shop; image taken prior to the COVID-19 precautions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's books, including "The Story of the Dogface Butterfly (Fran Keller, Greg Kareofelas and Laine Bauer)" are shelved in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dragonflies may or may not bring good luck, but dragonfly t-shirts are a popular item in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop.
UC Davis entomology doctoral student and artist Charlotte Herbert Alberts wearing a hoodie she designed that's available for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the back of the hoodie that UC Davis doctoral student Charlotte Herbert Alberts designed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Emma Cluff with a tardigrade (water bear) stuffed animal for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
On the Fly
Flies seem to be in the news a lot lately. But have you ever looking closely at a common green bottle fly Lucilia sericata, also known as a...
A common green bottle fly, Lucilia sericata, seeking nectar on a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The green bottle fly sips some nectar from a tropical milkweed blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flies can be pollinators, too, but they're better known for their forensic, veterinary and medical importance. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a green bottle fly sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
