Posts Tagged: Bohart Museum of Entomology
It's Pollinator Month: No Sweat?
In the sweltering heat of Solano County (100 degrees) during National Pollinator Month, how...
A sweat bee, genus Halictus, sailing over a Coreopsis in a Vacaville pollinator garden. June is National Pollinator Month. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees Reign at Bohart Museum Open House
World Bee Day was May 20, but the Bohart Museum of Entomology celebrated it early--on May...
The Rachel Vannette lab engages the crowd at the Bohart Museum open house. In front, from back, are doctoral student Dino Sbardellati, associate professor Rachel Vannette, junior specialist Leta Landucci and doctoral candidate Lexie Martin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student Peter Coggan of the laboratory of Santiago Ramirez, is ready for the crowd to arrive. Coggan studies the neurological and genetic basis of orchid bee courtship behavior and evolution. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Health physician Jaclyn Watkins (far left), co-leader of Brownie Troop 121 of Davis, watches as troop members listen to doctoral candidate Lexie Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab. The girls earned their Brownie Bug Badges. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Queen, The Workers, and The Drones
An unmarked queen bee isn't easy to spot. That was the consensus at the Bohart Museum of...
UC Davis entomology graduate student Richard Martinez encourages attendees to find the queen in the bee observation hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A very focused youngster asks UC Davis graduate student Richard Martinez a question about honey bees at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology graduate student explains how to identify the queen, male and the worker bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen bee (center) with workers and a drone (top right). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A worker bee (left) and a drone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Bee' at the Bohart Museum Open House to See Bee Observation Hive and Taste Honey
Want to see a bee observation hive, taste honey, and learn about honey bee health? Those are some...
A honey bee, dusted with gold pollen, forages on mustard (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on blanketflower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House on May 19: Meet the Bee Reseachers
From honey bees to bumble bees to mason bees to orchid bees--you'll see those and more--and you'll...
UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette (foreground), associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answers questions at the UC Davis Picnic Day. In back is doctoral candidate Gillian Bergmann, who is advised by Vannette and Johan Leveau. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees in the genus Osmia are among the bees that the Rachel Vannette lab studies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)