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A Dragonfly to Behold: Within an Arm's Reach
International dragonfly authority and researcher Rosser Garrison, who retired as a senior insect biosystematist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture in 2017 and has authored such well-cited books as Dragonfly Genera of the New World: an llustrated and Annotated Key to...
Anna Garrison's arm art: a tattoo of Cordulegaster diadema, aka Apache spiketail. The Sacramento resident is the daughter of noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An image of Cordulegaster diadema, aka Apache spiketail. (Photo by Rosser Garrison)
Rosser Garrison and his daughter, Anna Garrison, display their insect drawings. They participated in a class taught at a Bohart Museum of Entomology open house by Professor Miguel Angel Miranda of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rosser Garrison and his daughter, Anna Garrison, examine some of the specimens on display at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UBI Professor Demonstrates 'How to Draw a Bug' at Bohart Museum Open House
Are you ready to draw an insect? That's what Professor Miguel Angel Miranda of the University of the Balearic Islands (UBI), Spain, asked participants in his insect-drawing workshops on Saturday night, July 22 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. Miranda, newly returned from...
Professor Miguel Angel Miranda of the University of the Balearic Islands (UBI), Spain, teaching a workshop on "How to Draw Bugs." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Participants in an insect drawing demonstration led by Professor Miguel Angel Miranda of the University of the Balearic Islands (UBI), Spain, listen intently. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An illustration by Professor Miguel Angel Miranda. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Following Professor Miguel Angel Miranda's workshops, participants were invited to pose for a photo with their sketches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sketches by Anna Garrison of Sacramento.
The Day That Dragonflies Sprang to Life
Dragonflies sprang to life in dazzling colors during the family arts-and-crafts activities at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Dragonflies Rule!" While dragonfly experts fielded questions from guests, over at the arts-and-crafts table, children and their families eagerly...
The arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum's dragonfly open house was a popular site. In the back (at left) is noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
High school student Kate Phillips of the Da Vinci Charter Academy leads the dragonfly candle project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart volunteer Barbara Heinsch of Davis coloring a dragonfly page. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sacramento residents Kay Lu of Sacramento and her daughter, Lena 7, loved creating the projects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ingredients for the dragonfly candles await the artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Dragonflies Rule!
Dragonflies rule! That was the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, and dragonflies do just that--they rule. They don't just rule in the water as larvae and in the air as adults. They ruled at the Bohart Museum open house as visitors...
Noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison shows a slide of Cora semiopaca at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dragonfly experts at the Bohart Museum open house included Sandra Hunt-von Arb, with the Pacific Northwest Biological Resources Consultants, Inc.; Andy Rehn, stream ecologist with California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Rosser Garrison, formerly with the California Department of Food and Agriculture; and Greg Kareofelas, Bohart associate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Christofer Brothers (left), a UC Davis doctoral student studying dragonflies, and Christopher Beatty, a visiting visiting scholar in the Program for Conservation Genomics at Stanford University, offered their expertise at the Bohart Museum open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Christopher Beatty, a visiting scholar in the Program for Conservation Genomics at Stanford University, is a co-editor and co-author of this newly published book, "Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research," second edition. Fresh from the printers, it was among the dragonfly books displayed at the open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This Bohart Museum display includes the world's largest dragonfly, Petalura ingentissima, discovered in 1908 in North Queensland, Australia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rosser Garrison answers questions following his seminar on dragonflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum showcased dragonfly images by Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. Here Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart, admires a river jewelwing, Calopteryx aequabilis, that Kareofelas photographed at the Klamath River. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day--No, Make that DragonFLY Day
It's Friday Fly Day--no, let's switch that insect order from Diptera to Odonata and make it "DragonFLY Day." Better yet, let's make Sunday, Nov. 6 "The DragonFLY Day." That's when the Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house--themed "Dragonflies Rule!"--from 1 to 4...
A flameskimmer, Libellula saturata, with prey. This image was taken in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A flameskimmer perched on a garden stick in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
