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An Un-Bee-Lievable Summer at Belize: Bohart Open House on Sunday, Sept. 18

Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) who curates the moth and butterfly collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, talks about butterflies at the Bohart's Belize summer expedition. (Photo by Steve Heydon)

You will not bee-lieve what a group of scientists affiliated with the Bohart Museum of Entomology,...

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Posted on Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 3:41 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Belize (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (17), David Wyatt (1), Folsom Lake College (1), Fran Keller (4), Jeff Smith (2), Lynn Kimsey (13), open house (3), Sacramento City College (1), Steve Heydon (24)

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 (17), Lynn Kmsey (1), Parasitoid Palooza II (2), parasitoids (1), Rosemary Malfi (2), Steve Heydon (24), Tabatha Yang (6)

Ready for Parasitoid Palooza II? Bohart Museum Open House on Sunday, Jan. 10

A wasp parasitizing aphids. These wasps are from the family Aphidiinae. (Photo by Fran Keller)

If you've ever tried to rear monarch butterflies, you may have encountered a caterpillar...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 1:48 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (17), Lynn Kimsey (13), monarch butterflies (1), open house (3), Parasitoid Palooza II (2), Rosemary Malfi (2), Steve Heydon (24), Tabatha Yang (6)

Oh, What a (Moth) Night!

Moth Night at the Bohart Museum of Entomology was the first-ever evening open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Oh, what a (moth) night! Saturday, July 18 marked the beginning of National Moth...

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Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 6:45 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (17), Fran Keller (4), Greg Kareofelas (3), Jeff Smith (2), John DeBenedictis (1), Moth Night (1), Steve Heydon (24), Tabatha Yang (6)

What's It Like to Be Parasitized?

A wasp (family Aphidiinae) parasitizing an aphid. (Photo by Fran Keller, who received her doctorate in entomology this year from UC Davis.)

What's it like to be parasitized? Say you're a caterpillar or an aphid and a wasp comes along and...

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Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 5:10 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Lynn Kimsey (13), parasitoid (1), Parasitoid Palooza (1), Robbin Thorp (1), Steve Heydon (24), Tabatha Yang (6), tachinid (1), wasp (1)

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