Posts Tagged: LiveScience

Discovering Warrior Wasps

Lynn S. Kimsey is an entomologist, and has been one for most of her life.So begins the National Science Foundation's recent LiveScience feature on the UC Davis entomologist.It's an interesting piece. Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, traces...

Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic "warrior wasp" she discovered on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lynn Kimsey with a gigantic "warrior wasp" she discovered on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

One of Life's Little Mysteries

It's an amazing migratory feat. "One generation of monarch butterflies flutters some 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico," writes LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her piece, "Life's Little Mysteries" posted Nov. 4 on the LiveScience website. And some other animal...

Monarch Butterfly

MONARCH BUTTERFLY in the Luther Burbank Gardens, Santa Rosa. One generation of monarch butterflies migrates 2000 miles between southern Canada and central Mexico, according to LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry in her Nov. 4 post. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Blood Banquets

Human blood--it drives mosquitoes wild. Today Marlene Cimmons of the National Science Foundation (NSF) spotlights chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology, University of California, Davis, on the LiveScience Web site. This interesting feature takes a behind-the-scenes look at Leal,...

Walter Leal

CHEMICAL ECOLOGIST Walter Leal works in his lab in the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Culex mosquito

THIS MOSQUITO, Culex quinquefasciatus, has just received a blood meal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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