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Oh, What a (Moth) Night!

Moth Night at the Bohart Museum of Entomology was the first-ever evening open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Oh, what a (moth) night! Saturday, July 18 marked the beginning of National Moth...

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Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 6:45 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), Fran Keller (4), Greg Kareofelas (3), Jeff Smith (3), John DeBenedictis (2), Moth Night (1), Steve Heydon (29), Tabatha Yang (9)

What's It Like to Be Parasitized?

A wasp (family Aphidiinae) parasitizing an aphid. (Photo by Fran Keller, who received her doctorate in entomology this year from UC Davis.)

What's it like to be parasitized? Say you're a caterpillar or an aphid and a wasp comes along and...

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Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 5:10 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Lynn Kimsey (16), parasitoid (1), Parasitoid Palooza (1), Robbin Thorp (1), Steve Heydon (29), Tabatha Yang (9), tachinid (1), wasp (1)

Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Forceps held by Danielle Wishon zero in on a bed bug to be fed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Most of us remember the old nursery rhyme, "Good night, sleep tight, and don't let the bed...

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Posted on Monday, January 13, 2014 at 10:48 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bed bugs (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), Cimex lectularius (1), Danielle Wishon (1), Matan Shelomi (1), Steve Heydon (29)

'The December Event' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

A Bohart Museum volunteer at work. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

They're calling it "The December Event." Because that's what it is. It's an event held in...

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Posted on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), insect specimens (1), insects (1), Lynn Kimsey (16), Steve Heydon (29)

Things That Go Bump and Boo in the Night

Skull shares the habitat of the giant cave cockroah (Blaberus gigante). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was about things that go bump and boo in the night during the annual Bohart Museum...

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Posted on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), Kate Brown (1), Leia Matern (1), Lynn Kimsey (16), Steve Heydon (29)

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