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Bugging the Bug Bowl Team

The national champs: Jessica Gillung, Brendon Boudinot, captain Ralph Washington Jr., and Ziad Khouri. (Photo by Matthew Chism)

They answered all the questions correctly except one. And that one, they agreed, they should have...

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Posted on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:31 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Brendon Boudinot (1), bug bowl team (1), Good Day Sacramento (1), Jessica Gillung (1), Linnaean Games (1), Lynn Kmsey (4), Ralph Washington Jr. (1), Richard M. Bohart (1), Ziad Khouri (1)

A Teaching Moment

Wide-eyed Ethan Fry, 5, and his sister Adi Fry, 7, of Davis, listen to graduate student Charlotte Herbert at the

How do you get your point across if you're trying to explain what a "parasitoid" is? Well, if...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 4:14 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: balloons (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (2), Lynn Kmsey (4), Parasitoid Palooza II (1), parasitoids (1), Rosemary Malfi (1), Steve Heydon (1), Tabatha Yang (1)

Charlotte and the Walking Stick: A New Hair Barrette

Graduate student Charlotte Herbert, who is seeking her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, has a visitor in her hair--a stick insect barrette. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The thing about walking sticks is that they walk. They don't skip, run, or gallop. They walk. And...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 6:30 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Australian walking sticks (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (2), Charlotte Herbert (1), Extatosoma tiaratum (1), Lynn Kmsey (4), stick insects (1), walking sticks (1)

Hop to It!

A katydid, or

What's that hopping on our patio? At first we thought it was a grasshopper. Not! It was a...

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Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013 at 10:07 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: katydid (1), long-horned grasshopper (1), Lynn Kmsey (4), Robbin Thorp (1)

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