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Moths, Microscopes and Insect Scientists: They All Go Together at Bohart Museum Open House
Moths, a magnificent microscope (scanning electron microscope) and friendly scientists--what could...
Moth Night at the Bohart Museum is fun and educational. Here two youngsters learn the differences between moths and butterflies at last year's event. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung answers questions at the 2016 Moth Night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This way to the petting zoo! UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Wade Spencer talks about the Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and tarantulas at the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lindcove Hosts Cochran Fellows from Pakistan
The US Congress provides funding to the Cochran Fellowship Program to provide training for emerging...
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Not a Good Way to Welcome an Admiral
It was not a good way to welcome an admiral. The Red Admiral butterfly, that is. The Vanessa...
A territorial male long-horned bee, probably Melissodes agilis, targets a Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The long-horned bee makes a "bee line" for the butterfly, a Red Admiral. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee slams into the butterfly and takes off for another round. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bruce's Big Battle at Briggs: 15 Minutes of Aim!
What do professors do for fun and camaraderie? Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor at the...
Distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, gets drenched. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Christophe Morisseau (left) a researcher in the Hammock lab and organizer of the yearly balloon battles, chases a fellow water warrior, postdoctoral scholar Pingxi Xu of the Walter Leal lab. (Photo from 2012, Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum to Celebrate Moth Night on July 22
The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, will celebrate National...
UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung with a moth display. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the Neopalpa donaldtrumpi moth. (Photo courtesy of evolutionary biologist and systematist Vazrick Nazari of Canada, who named the moth)