Posts Tagged: Christofer Brothers
An Introduction to Dragonflies and Spiders
Predators employ a diversity of behavioral and morphological adaptations to successfully capture...
Doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers explains how a dragonfly catches prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers fielding questions about dragonflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Emma "Em" Jochim answers a question about spiders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Placerville residents Sullivan Lowe, 6, and his father, Ron Lowe watch as UC Davis doctoral candidate Emma "Em" Jochim fluoresces a tarantula with ultraviolet (UV) light. Sullivan is holding a plastic spider that Jochim gave him. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't Miss Bohart Museum Open House on Nov. 2
You won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Nov....
A flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Chilean rose-haired tarantula, Grammostola porteri, on a Bohart Museum of Entomology t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. (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...
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)
Dragonfly Enthusiasts, Unite! Open House Set Nov. 6 at Bohart Museum
If you dragonflies fascinate you, and you wish to know more about them, be sure to attend the...
This is an American rubyspot, Hetaerina americana, photographed at a small stream in the inner Coast Range. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a river jewelwing, Calopteryx aequabilis, photographed at the Klamath River. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a white-belted ringtail, Erpetogomphus compositus, photographed in a small stream in the inner Coast Range. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
This is a red flameskimmer, Libellula saturata, photographed in a Vacaville yard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the black petaltail, Tanypteryx hageni, an image from the Inner Coast Range. "It's seldom seen and our most primitive dragonfly," said Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)