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Who Invited Bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day?

Bohart Museum associate Wade Spencer with his desert hair scorpion, Celeste, poses with the mascot,

Who invited bugs to the UC Davis Picnic Day? Well, UC Davis officials and the UC Davis Department...

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Posted on Friday, April 20, 2018 at 6:31 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (259), Diego Rivera (1), insects (17), Lohit Garikipati (3), praying mantis (15), scorpion (2), stick insects (8), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (14), UC Davis Picnic Day (8), Wade Spencer (11)

Focus Area Tags: Family Natural Resources

You Won't Believe What You'll See at the Bohart Museum on Picnic Day

Entomology student and Bohart Museum associate Wade Spencer grimaces for the camera as he holds a beaver pelt and points to where a parasite lives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Take heed. The 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day theme is “Where the Sun Shines.” The...

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Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4:36 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beaver beetle (1), beavers (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (259), Lynn Kimsey (140), Platypsyllus castoris (1), Tabatha Yang (62), UC Davis Picnic Day (8), Wade Spencer (11)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

Yes, You Do Eat Insects!

Booklice, Liposcelis bostrychophila, in cornmeal. This image was taken with a Canon MPE-65mm lens. The bugs are five times their life size. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Yes, you do eat insects! Maybe not deliberately, as in those who engage in entomophagy, the...

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Posted on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 6:57 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (259), booklice (1), cornmeal (1), Liposcelis bostrychophila (1), stored grains (1)

Focus Area Tags: Food Pest Management

The Boys Are Back in Town

A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta, nectars on a a mustard blossom in Vacaville, Calif. on Sunday, March 25. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The boys are back in town! Well, at least one is. We don't know where the girls are. Neither,...

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Posted on Monday, March 26, 2018 at 3:36 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (259), male Valley carpenter bee (4), Robbin Thorp (14), teddy bear bee (1), UC Davis Picnic Day (8), Xylocopa varipuncta (4)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment

Hmm, What's That Critter with the Long, Skinny Necks and Legs?

Heads of Rhadinoscelidia malaysiae species.

“They have weird, long, skinny hinged necks, long skinny legs, and the wing bases are covered...

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Posted on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (259), cuckoo wasp (1), Lynn Kimsey (140), Rhadinoscelidia (1), Rhadinoscelidia malaysiae (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

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