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Curator Jeff Smith: Spreading the Wings of Butterflies
Do you know how to spread the wings of a butterfly specimen? It's not as easy as it looks, but entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection, makes it look easy. If you attend the Bohart Museum open house, set from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday,...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collections, shows visitors how to spread the wings of a butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection, discusses projects with UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, professor at Folsom Lake College, a UC Davis lecturer, and a Bohart research associate/affiliate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Can You Name California's State Insect?
Can you name California's state insect? Did you know that California has a state insect? It does. Is it the honey bee? No. Is it the lady beetle (ladybug)? No. Bumble bee? No. It's the California dogface butterfly (Zerene eurydice), an insect found only in California. The...
Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, holds a drawer of California dogface butterfly specimens. The butterfly is California's state insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A 35-page children's book, "The Story of the Dogface Butterfly," is authored by UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College and a Bohart research scientist.
'A Water Leak' That Turned Into a Surprise Birthday Party
It's Saturday night, and UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, is home, thinking about "what's for dinner" and concerned about the historic storms that recently drenched the campus. Then around 5:30 comes the urgent message from her...
Associate dean Jason Bond leads professor Lynn Kimsey into the Bohart Museum after informing her of "the water leakage." At right is doctoral student Iris Quayle from the Bond lab.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Surprise! Happy birthday! Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, reacts to the surprise birthday party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart research associate Brittany Kohler crowns Lynn Kimsey with a birthday hat. At right is doctoral student Iris Quayle of the Jason Bond lab.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Folsom Lake College professor and Bohart Museum scientist Fran Keller and professor Lynn Kimsey share cake and laughter. Keller received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, studying with Kimsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Folsom Lake College professor Fran Keller and UC Davis professor Lynn Kimsey cut the cake. At right is Bohart collection manager Brennen Dyer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a wrap! "Birthday gal" Lynn Kimsey unfurls the wrapping of a gift. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A 10-inch radio-controlled tarantula, guided by Lynn Kimsey, patrols the floor of the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and beetles from Belize and more... And you're invited. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house, themed "Beetles," from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 24 in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge...
Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.
Children's activities by Project Learning Tree will be among the featured activities at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Jan. 22.
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart Museum Open House
Beetles from Belize at the Bohart! The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on beetles, set Sunday, Jan. 22, will include "Beetles in Belize." Beetle expert Fran Keller, a professor at Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum scientist, will discuss the beetles that she and other...
Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College and a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, is shown here wearing her Bohart Museum rhinoceros beetle shirt at Kensington Palace. Keller taught science to community college students in London during the fall semester. She designed this beetle, which is available in the Bohart Museum gift shop.
Some of the insects collected during a Bio Blitz in Belize for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Fran Keller)
