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Posts Tagged: flies
Charlotte Alberts and Those Fascinating Assassin Flies
Oh, the common names that insects bear...murder hornets, killer bees, cow killers, biting lice, assassin flies...if only those insects knew the...
An assassin fly sketched by UC Davis doctoral alumna Charlotte Herbert Alberts, who is both an entomologist and an artist. (Copyrighted image by Charlotte Alberts, used with permission)
Geoffrey Attardo: Seminar on Mating Biology of Tsetse Flies
Did you know that tsetse flies give birth to live offspring? That's just one of the facts that UC Davis medical...
Mating tsetse flies. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology)
Bee Flies: Pollinators with a Bad Reputation
The late Argentine-born biologist Beatriz Moisset (1934-2022) of Willow Grove, Pa., called the insect "A Pollinator with a Bad...
A bee fly, family Bombyliidae, heads for a yellow zinnia in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee fly hovers over a yellow zinina. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee fly sips nectar from the zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee fly takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day! Time to post an image of a fly. Or two flies. On a cockroach. The scenario: a large cockroach drowned in a small water trough...
A green bottle fly feasts on a cockroach, thought to be a Turkestan cockroach, a newer species in California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two green bottle flies feasting on what appears to be a Turkestan cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
International Scientists at the Bohart Museum Open House
When the Bohart Museum of Entomology hosted an open house, "An Evening at the Museum," on Saturday, July 22, showcasing moths and flies, the...
Tephritid fruit fly expert Nikos Papadopoulos of Greece showed a video on tephritid flies at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. He did postdoctoral work at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tephritid fruit fly expert Nikos Papadopoulos of Greece answered questions about tephritid flies at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomologist who studies flies, talks about his work. He holds a joint postdoc position with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Miguel Angel Miranda (far right) of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, answered questions about his specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house and also demonstrated how to draw insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Iris Quayle (right), a second-year doctoral student in the lab of Professor Jason Bond, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, fielded questions as did colleague Folsom Lake College graduate Julianna Campos. Campos is a former student of Folsom Lake College professor Fran Keller, a UC Davis doctoral alumna. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Nazzy Pakpour, a UC Davis alumna who holds a doctorate in microbiology, virology and parasitology from the University of Pennsylvania, read from her newly published children's book, "Please Don't Bite Me." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum research associate Brittany Kohler (foreground, left) encouraged visitors to get acquainted with the insects in the live petting zoo. Next to her: doctoral student Emma Jochim of the Jason Bond lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
