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Bohart Museum Open House: 'Insects and U'

A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectaring on catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mark your calendar! Here's an opportunity--especially for new students and prospective students at...

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Posted on Friday, September 15, 2017 at 4:53 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (124), cabbage white butterfly (2), Insects and U (1), Lynn Kimsey (195), open house (20), Pieris rapae (2), Tabatha Yang (46)

Meet 'Mantis Master Keeper' Andrew Pfeifer

Andrew Pfeifer is eye to eye with a female Parasphendale affinis nymph. (Photo by Andrew Pfeifer)

Who isn't fascinated by a praying mantis, that pre-historic looking predator that lurks on a plant...

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Posted on Friday, September 1, 2017 at 6:41 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Andrew Pfeifer (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (124), Bugfest (1), California praying mantids (1), Lynn Kimsey (195), Mantis Keeper (1), orchid mantis (1), Parasphendale affinis (1), praying mantis (7)

Why There's a Tree in the Bohart Museum of Entomology

Hanging posters in preparation for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Aug. 27 are Steve Seybold lab associates Crystal Homicz (left), a UC Davis undergraduate student and research assistant, and entomologist Megan Siefker, a junior specialist in the Seybold lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. Siefker received her bachelor's degree in entomology in December, 2014 and Homicz is majoring in animal biology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

There are nearly 8 million insect specimens in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of...

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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bark beetles (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (124), Crystal Homicz (1), Lynn Kimsey (195), Megan Siefker (1), open house (20), Steve Seybold (2), Tabatha Yang (46)

Bohart Museum Associate Jeff Smith: A Monarch Kind of Day

Entomologist Jeff Smith's 70th birthday cake featured a monarch butterfly motif. A 30-year volunteer at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, he curates the butterfly and moth collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly and moth collection at the Bohart Museum of...

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Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 5:03 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: 70th birthday party (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (124), butterflies (3), Jeff Smith (15), Lynn Kimsey (195), monarchs (2), moths (4), volunteer service (1)

Bohart Museum Open House: 'Bark Beetle Forest Central'

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Riley Gilmartin of Davis shows a chunk of wood with beetle galleries. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you attend the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 27,...

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Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 5:02 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bark beetles (2), Bohart Museum of Entomology (124), forest health (1), Lynn Kimsey (195), open house (20), Steve Seybold (2), Tabatha Yang (46)

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