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Bohart Museum Open House: From Wasps to Nematodes to Flies to Pop-Up Cards

Lauren Camp, diagnostic parasitologist at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, will display nematode specimens at the Bohart open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Want to learn about such parasitoids as nematodes, jewel wasps, small-headed flies and tachinid...

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Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 5:01 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (24), Jessica Gillung (2), Lynn Kimsey (19), open house (4), Parasitoid Palooza (3), Steve Heydon (32), Tabatha Yang (12)

Parasitoid Palooza! Or What Ate My Caterpillar or Chrysalis

This monarch chrysalis is filled with tachinid fly larvae, about to emerge. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So you're trying to rear monarch butterflies. You notice an egg on your milkweed plant, and watch...

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Posted on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (24), Jessica Gillung (2), jewel wasps (1), Lynn Kimsey (19), monarchs (1), Parasitoid Palooza (3), Steve Heydon (32), Tabatha Yang (12), tachinid fly (1)

Bugs at the Bohart? Yes, and Bernie and a Hot Dog, Too!

A carved pumpkin at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Halloween party spilled its guts. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologists don't always dress as predators or prey at their Halloween parties. Sure, they're...

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Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (24), Halloween party (2), Lynn Kimsey (19), Robert Kimsey (1), Steve Heydon (32), Tabatha Yang (12)

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 (19), pink-spotted lady beetles (1), Steve Heydon (32), Tabatha Yang (12)

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 (24), KUIC 93.5 (1), KUIC coffee break (1), Lynn Kimsey (19), Steve Heydon (32), Tabatha Yang (12)

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