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Seeing Spots at the Bohart

The Bohart team includes (front, from left) graduate students Charlotte Herbert and Jessica Gillung and undergraduate student Wade Spencer. In back (from left) are UC Davis biology student Emma Cluff; Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator; Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology; and Steve Heydon, senior museum scientist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you walk into the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you'll see...

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Posted on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 4:43 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: 12-spotted lady beetles (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology Coleomegilla maculate (1), Lynn Kimsey (16), pink-spotted lady beetles (1), Steve Heydon (29), Tabatha Yang (9)

KUIC Meets the Entomologists and Coco McFluffin

Oh, no, an escapee! Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and KUIC host Barbara Hoover share a laugh as a Madagascar hissing cockroach decides not to star but to escape. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was a buggy, sweet kind of day when KUIC Radio 95.3 hosted a coffee break for the Bohart...

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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2017 at 4:40 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Barbara Hoover (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), KUIC 93.5 (1), KUIC coffee break (1), Lynn Kimsey (16), Steve Heydon (29), Tabatha Yang (9)

A Gathering of Lepidopterists: Who's Who of the Butterfly, Moth Experts

Essig Museum associate Kelly Richers works on underwing moths at the gathering of lepitopderists at the Bohart Museum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was a gathering of lepidopterists. A veritable Who's Who of lepidopterists. Some 25...

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Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 5:19 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), Jeff Smith (3), Jerry Powell (1), John Debenedictis (2), Steve Heydon (29)

Entomologists Know How to Party

Bug catchers Wade Spencer (far left) and Brennen Dyer, both entomoogy students, try to net a venomous caterpillar--doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologists know how to party. They know how to put the "boo" in biology and the "just buggin'...

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Posted on Monday, October 31, 2016 at 3:17 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), bug catchers (1), Halloween party (1), Lynn Kimsey (16), slug caterpilllar (1), Steve Heydon (29), Tabatha Yang (9), tardigrade (1)

These Girls Could Make or Break Your Halloween!

This is a female false black widow, Steatoda grossa, photographed in Davis, Calif. and released. (Photo by Adrienne Austin-Shapiro)

This just in for Halloween! Ever seen a false black widow spider? Commonly known as the cupboard...

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Posted on Friday, October 7, 2016 at 4:11 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Adrienne Austin-Shapiro (1), Art Shapiro (1), black widow spider (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (21), false black widow (1), Steatoda grossa (1), Steve Heydon (29)

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