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It Will Be a Parasite Palooza at the Bohart Museum Open House

Nematologists Corwin Parker (at microscope) and Lauren Camp (back of him) participated in the 2016 UC Davis Museum Diversity Day. Camp, who received her doctorate in entomology in December from UC Davis, is organizing a display for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Jan. 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How much do you know about ticks? How much do you know about nematodes? What would you like to...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 5:09 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bed bugs (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (2), Corwin Parker (1), fleas (2), Lauren Camp (1), Lynn Kimsey (2), nematology (1), ticks (1)

The Effect of the Drought on Insects

he drought has caused a number of immature praying mantids to die for lack of food. This is a female female Stagmomantis californica, as identified by Andrew Pfeiffer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The severe California drought--we're in the fourth year--is affecting us all, but it's also...

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Posted on Friday, August 28, 2015 at 6:16 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (2), drought (1), fleas (2), houseflies (1), insects (1), Lynn Kimsey (2), praying mantids (1)

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