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A Story No One Is Letting Robert Washino Forget
It's a story that no one is letting him forget. Noted medical entomologist Robert "Bob" Washino,...
Sharing coffee last week at the Bohart Museum were medical entomologist Robert Washino, emeritus professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology (now Entomology and Nematology) and Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and UC Davis professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Highly Successful Biodiversity Museum Day
They saw bugs. They saw bones. They saw honey bees. They saw hawks. Those were just a few of the...
Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden, drew scores of visitors. It's located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Youths used vacuum devices for catch-and-release of bees at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (center), who curates the butterfly and moth collections at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, answers questions.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bird's eye view of the nematode collection in the Sciences Lab Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis nematology graduate student Chris Pagan talks to visitors at the nematode collection in the Sciences Lab Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A visitor photographs the skin of a male African lion from Tanzania (1960s). Not much else is known about it, said Andrew Engilis, Jr., curator of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology. This was part of a display in the Academic Surge Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Volunteer Billy Thein shows a golden eagle named "Sullivan" at the California Raptor Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Volunteer Diana Munoz shows a red-shouldered hawk, Mikey, at the California Raptor Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Five Reasons Why All This Rain Is Bad for Almond Pollination Season
It's not a good time to be a California almond grower or a beekeeper. And it's definitely not a...
During a sun break on Feb. 12, 2017, a pollen-laden honey bee heads for more almond blossoms in Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Adjusting her load of pollen, a honey bee buzzes toward another almond blossom on Feb. 12 in Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee with "saddlebags" of pollen foraging in an almond tree on Feb. 12 in Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin
It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart...
Oh, no, an escapee! Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and KUIC host Barbara Hoover share a laugh as a Madagascar hissing cockroach decides not to star but to escape. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist at the Bohart Museum, introduces KUIC's Barbara Hoover to a walking stick--and it started walking up her arm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang (far left), education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart, entomologist and Bohart associate Wade Spencer, entomology student at UC Davis, introduce KUIC's Barbara Hoover to a tarantula named Coco McFluffin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Camaraderie: Distinguished emeriti professors from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology with Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart and professor of entomology. With her (from left) are Harry Kaya, Robert Washino and Robbin Thorp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the scene at the start of the KUIC/Bohart coffee break--a mixture of bugs on the wall and sweets on the table. At far left is Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Researcher: What Repellents and Doses Are Best to Prevent Zika Virus
If you're traveling to—or living in--a Zika virus-infested area, it's far better to use DEET...
Working on zika-virus research are UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal (foreground) and colleagues and co-authors Rosangela Barbosa (center) and graduate student Gabriel Faierstein of FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, Brazil.
The southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, can also transmit the Zika virus, but the primary mosquito is the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)