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The Doctor Is In: 'Bug Me'
The handwritten sign at the "Bug Doctor" booth at Briggs Hall during the 104th annual UC Davis...
Bug Doctor Brendon Boudinot answers a question from Lilliana Phillips, 5, of Carmichael, as her father, William Phillips, watches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Brendon Boudinot of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology fields a question from a "client" at the Bug Doctor booth at the 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ant specialist Zachary Griebenow, a first-year doctoral student in the Phil Ward lab, answers a question in the Bug Doctor booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lilliana Philips, 5, of Carmichael, listens intently as Bug Doctor Zachary Griebenow answers her question: "Do bugs get ear infections?" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Those Multi-Tasking Honey Bees Have Nothing on Amina Harris
If you can't chew gum and walk at the same time, think about the multi-tasking honey bee. Have you...
A honey bee in flight, as she adjusts her pollen load and cleans her tongue or proboscis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The honey bee heads straight for the mustard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Picnic Day: Bugging Out
They came. They saw. They bugged out. Who wouldn't, when you get an opportunity to pet a...
Entomologist and Bohart associate Jeff Smith introduces a crowd to Snuggles, a rose-haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two-year-old Teddy Owens of Davis, held by his mother, Dina Owens, high-fives Snuggles, the rose-haired tarantula, held by entomologist and Bohart associate Jeff Smith. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Jeff Smith shows Snuggles, a rose-haired tarantula, to inquiring youngsters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Quite a handful! Visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house on Picnic Day watch Snuggles, a rose-haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors check out the beaver/beetle display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. In the foreground is Lynn Kimsey, museum director and UC Davis professor. At far left is undergraduate student Ivana Satre. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey smiles at the reaction of visitors to the beaver/beetle display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert shows youngsters how scorpions fluoresce under ultraviolet light. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee display encompassed honey bees, bumble bees, sweat bees, sunflower bees and more. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matt Forister: Melissa Blue Butterfly and Colonization of Alfalfa
Want to learn more about the Melissa blue butterfly and its colonization of alfalfa? UC Davis...
UC Davis alumnus Matt Forister, McMinn Professor of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, will present a seminar at UC Davis on Wednesday, April 25 on his work with understanding the colonization of alfalfa by the Melissa blue butterfly.
The Melissa blue butterfly, either Lycaeides melissa or Plebejus melissa, basking on an alfalfa plant. (Photo by Matt Forister)
Who Invited Bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day?
Who invited bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day? Well, UC Davis officials and the UC Davis Department...
Bohart Museum associate Wade Spencer with his desert hair scorpion, Celeste, poses with the mascot, "Hamburger Cow Patty." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis student Melissa Mongan (far left) who is majoring in community and regional development, checks out a walking stick. In back are Diego Rivera (center) and Lohit Garikipati. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis student Valeed Aziz (left), who is majoring in neurology, physiology and behavior, admires a walking sticks. With him are Bohart associates Lohit Garikipati (center) and Diego Rivera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis students Bradyn O'Connor and Jacquelyn Shaff, both wildlife biology majors, get acquainted with an Australian leaf stick insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis geography doctoral student, Carlos Beccera, and his wife Stefani Florez and their son Matias Becerra, 23 months old, get up close and personal with a desert hairy scorpion held by Wade Spencer. Beccera considered majoring in entomology but chose geography. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't look now, but mascot "Hamburger Cow Patty" has a visitor on her face--a Malaysian shield mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eye to eye with a praying mantis. The costumed character, "Hamburger Cow Patty," didn't mind a bit. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)