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Silk Textile Displays Grab Attention at Bohart Museum's Moth Night
"Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin and is produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoons.The best-known silk is obtained from the...
Bohart Museum associate Michael Pitcairn, retired from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, answers questions about silkworm moths and textiles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This chaddar is made of rri silk (silkworm moth, Samia ricini) and handwoven in Assam, India. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is tussah silk fabric in a pattern called "Honeycomb." Donor Richard Pleiger purchased this fabric from a Los Angeles company for $32.95 per yard. There are several species of tussah silk moths (family Saturniidae) in China, India, Japan, Africa and North America.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why These Moths Are Unwanted
As we gather to celebrate moths during National Moth Week (traditionally held the last full week in July and to be observed areawide on Saturday night, July 20 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis), folks single out their favorites and non-favorites. For the beekeepers that's...
Close-up of the larvae of the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella), pests of honey bee colonies. Also shown is another bee colony pest, a hive beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) from the Bohart Museum of Entomology Lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Jeff Smith)
This is the lesser wax moth, Achroia grisella, from the Bohart Museum of Entomology Lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Jeff Smith)
Sheep Moths Draw Attention at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
Unless you're an entomologist, moth enthusiast, or an avid follower of National Moth Week, you may have never seen or heard about sheep moths. Those who attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on social wasps, held Jan. 20, learned all about them from entomologist...
The late Mike Smith, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran who retired in Folsom, looks over his collection. The sheep moths he collected are now in the Bohart Museum. He passed in 2003. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, chats with Sacramento residents Skylan Potter, 11, and her mother, Camille Potter, holding son, Kehlan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, explains moth specimens to Katie Dietrich and her son, Andrew, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's lepidoptera collection, shows moths to Andrew Dietrich of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas, and scientist Sophia Acker of the Del Castillo lab, UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, display a drawer of sheep moths, Hemileuca eglanterina. (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 moth experts were there to celebrate National Moth Week, July 22-30 and the fly experts had just attended the 10th International Dipterology...
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)
Bohart Open House: Like a Moth to a Flame
Like a moth to a flame...visitors crowded into the Bohart Museum of Entomology last Saturday night for a "Night at the Museum." The open house showcased moths, in celebration of National Moth Week, and spotlighted flies, in keeping with the 10th International Dipterology Congress,...
The blacklighting display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, talks to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas displays death's-head hawkmoths, Acherontia stropos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
