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Oh, the Bugs You'll See at the Bohart: Giant T-Shirt Sale

Wearing Bohart Museum of Entomology t-shirts are (seated) UC Davis student Wade Spencer (left) and senior museum scientist Steve Heydon. In back are UC Davis students and Bohart associates Eliza Litsey, Parras McGrath, Lohit Garikipati, and Brennen Dyer. Spender, Litsey, Garikipiati and Dyer are all UC Davis students. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

They'll give you the shirt off their back. Well, not quite, but you can buy a shirt off their...

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Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 2:01 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (264), Ceanothus silkworm moth (1), gift shop (3), insect-themed t-shirts (1), insects (20), Lynn Kimsey (144), praying mantis (16), silkworm moth caterpillar (1), Steve Heydon (25), t-shirts (2)

Focus Area Tags: Family Innovation

Kids and Bugs Go Well Together: Check Out the Dixon May Fair

Dixon May Fair Youth Building superintendent Building superintendent Stephanie Hill (left) of Yuba City and assistant building superintendent Pat Connelly of Vacaville hang bumble bee pillow, the work of Solano County 4-H'ers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Kids and bugs go well together. Take the entries in Today's Youth Building at the 143rd annual...

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Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 3:45 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (264), Brennen Dyer (1), Dixon May Fair (7), Home Grown Fun (1), insects (20), Pat Connelly (1), Solano County 4-H (1), spiders (5), Stephanie Hill (1), Today''s Youth Building (1)

Focus Area Tags: 4-H Agriculture Environment Family Innovation

Fun at the Fair with Entomologists and Insects

Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the butterfly and moth specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, enjoys showing insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If fair time is fun time--and it is--just add insects to make it even more fun. Entomologists from...

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Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 5:39 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (264), Charlotte Herbert (7), Dixon May Fair (7), insects (20), Jeff Smith (21), Lynn Kimsey (144), Madagascar hissing cockroaches (5)

Focus Area Tags: Family Food Natural Resources

Other Critters Will 'Share the Love' at California Honey Festival, Too!

Not just honey bees will be featured at the California Honey Festival. The Bohart Museum will show scores of bee specimens, including the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's not just honey bees that will "share the love" Saturday, May 5 at the second annual California...

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Posted on Friday, May 4, 2018 at 4:13 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (264), California Honey Festival (1), Lynn Kimsey (144), Tabatha Yang (63), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Centr (1), University of California at Davis (2)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Family Food Yard & Garden

Bohart Museum Picnic Day: Bugging Out

Entomologist and Bohart associate Jeff Smith introduces a crowd to Snuggles, a rose-haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

They came. They saw. They bugged out. Who wouldn't, when you get an opportunity to pet a...

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Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 4:54 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beaver (1), beetles (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (264), Lynn Kimsey (144), Madagascar hissing cockroaches (5), Platypsyllus castoris (2), stick insects (9), tarantulas (1), UC Davis Picnic Day (9), walking sticks (6)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Family Natural Resources

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