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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 (140), Lynn Kimsey (211), Platypsyllus castoris (1), Tabatha Yang (52), UC Davis Picnic Day (4), Wade Spencer (9)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

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 (140), cuckoo wasp (1), Lynn Kimsey (211), Rhadinoscelidia (1), Rhadinoscelidia malaysiae (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

Bugs from Belize in the Bohart

Professors Dave Wyatt and Fran Keller in Belize on their collection trip. They will be showing some of their insect specimens Saturday, Feb. 17 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the campuswide Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo courtesy of Fran Keller)

Talk about alliteration. "Bugs from Belize in the Bohart." It doesn't get any more bugly than...

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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2018 at 2:39 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Belize (3), Biodiversity Museum Day (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (140), Darian Dungey (1), Dave Wyatt (1), Fran Keller (17), Jeff Smith (18), Lynn Kimsey (211), Noah Crockette (2), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (10)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Innovation Natural Resources

To Boldly Go, and the Chancellor Did: To an Insect Museum!

Lynn Kimsey (far right), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks about the history of the insect museum to UC Davis Chancellor Gary May and Dean Helene Dillard (center) of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In back are Steve Nadler, chair of the Department of Entomology and Nematmology; undergraduate students Emma Cluff and Lohit Garikipati and Nann Fangue, current chair of the Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology Department. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

“To Boldy Go.” UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, a Star Trek enthusiast, coined that theme...

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Posted on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 2:29 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (140), Chancellor Gary May (1), Dean Helene Dillard (1), Lohit Garikipati (1), Lynn Kimsey (211), petting zoo (2), praying mantis (8), scorpion (1), Wade Spencer (9)

Focus Area Tags: Innovation Natural Resources

A Little Sticktoitiveness

A stick insect in the process of molting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Well, it did what it was supposed to do. It walked. When Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart...

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Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (140), Lynn Kimsey (211), molting (1), stick insects (4), UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day (2), walking sticks (3)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Family Natural Resources

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