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Posts Tagged: Peter Cranston

How to Flush Out a Praying Mantis

So you want to capture an image of a praying mantis. You have to find one first. Sometimes it's a case of hide 'n seek--it hides, you...

Praying mantis on a watered tomato plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis on a watered tomato plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis on a watered tomato plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis licks water from its forelegs, specialized to seize prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis licks water from its forelegs, specialized to seize prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis licks water from its forelegs, specialized to seize prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis rests on a tomato vine prior to flying to a nearby tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis rests on a tomato vine prior to flying to a nearby tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Praying mantis rests on a tomato vine prior to flying to a nearby tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, July 23, 2012 at 9:29 PM

This Bug's for You

Last weekend we spotted a San Francisco-bound car sporting a bumper sticker that read simply:"I brake for bugs." Indeed. Bugs rule. Bugs are cool....

Peter Cranston
Peter Cranston

PETER CRANSTON, an entomology professor at the University of California, Davis, was one of a select group of entomologists invited by the Royal Entomological Society, United Kingdom, to write a blog during National Insect Week.

Thomas Miller
Thomas Miller

THOMAS MILLER. an entomology professor at the University of California, Riverside, was one of a select group of entomologists invited by the Royal Entomological Society, United Kingdom, to write a blog during National Insect Week.

Posted on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM

Long Awaited: The Insects

The Insects are coming. The Insects are coming. That would be the fourth edition of The Insects: An Outline of Entomology,  the newly published...

Textbook Cover
Textbook Cover

TEXTBOOK COVER of "The Insects: An Outline of Entomology." The textbook, considered "the gold standard of entomology books," will be available in the United States in March. It is the work of UC Davis professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston.

Posted on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM

Tongue-Tied

Blue merle mini-Australian shepherds have one. So do honey bees. What? A tongue. For a puppy, the tongue can symbolize pure happiness. For a...

Happy puppy
Happy puppy

Blue merle mini-Australian shepherds have one: a tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Industrious honey bee
Industrious honey bee

Just like the puppy above, the industrious honey bee has a tongue, too, or what entomologists call "mouthparts." Here's a pollen-dusted bee in the UC Davis Aboretum nectaring a flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Tags: honey bee (250), Penny Gullan (6), Peter Cranston (6), tongue (2)

Down Under and on Deadline

They're Down Under and on deadline. Entomology professors Penny Gullan and Peter...

Douglas Williams and Penny Gullan
Douglas Williams and Penny Gullan

STUDYING INSECTS--University of California, Davis entomologist Penny Gullan, a native of Australia, and noted British entomologist Douglas Williams collaborate on insect scale taxonomy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Peter Cranston
Peter Cranston

UC DAVIS ENTOMOLOGIST Peter Cranston looks over posters at the Entomological Society of America meeting, held recently in Reno. He and colleague Penny Gullan are now finishing the fourth edition of their textbook, "The Insects." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM

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