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Introduce Your Children to Insects
How can you interest your children in insects? "For me, at least a lot of my interest developed...
Three-year-old Everly Puckett checks out a stick insect held by her father, Ryan Puckett, a UC Davis employee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis animal biology major Jakob Lopez shows a stick insect to Hunter Baker, 8. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hunter Baker, 8, delights in holding a stick insect. In back is Bohart collections manager Brennen Dyer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Danielle Hoskey introduces her 4-year-old son, Atlas Scott to a tomato hornworm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology major Oliver Smith eagerly shows a stick insect to a youngster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology doctoral student Emma "Em" Jochim (left) and high school intern Syd Benson engage the youngsters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mark Blankenship, 10, peers at a thorny stick insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis psychology major Naomi Lila, a member of the UC Davis Entomology Club, awaits visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sebastian Carrasco, 3, waves "bye bye" to a stick insect. He decided he didn't want to hold it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees Reign at Bohart Museum Open House
World Bee Day was May 20, but the Bohart Museum of Entomology celebrated it early--on May...
The Rachel Vannette lab engages the crowd at the Bohart Museum open house. In front, from back, are doctoral student Dino Sbardellati, associate professor Rachel Vannette, junior specialist Leta Landucci and doctoral candidate Lexie Martin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student Peter Coggan of the laboratory of Santiago Ramirez, is ready for the crowd to arrive. Coggan studies the neurological and genetic basis of orchid bee courtship behavior and evolution. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Health physician Jaclyn Watkins (far left), co-leader of Brownie Troop 121 of Davis, watches as troop members listen to doctoral candidate Lexie Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab. The girls earned their Brownie Bug Badges. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Bee' at the Bohart Museum Open House to See Bee Observation Hive and Taste Honey
Want to see a bee observation hive, taste honey, and learn about honey bee health? Those are some...
A honey bee, dusted with gold pollen, forages on mustard (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on blanketflower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House on May 19: Meet the Bee Reseachers
From honey bees to bumble bees to mason bees to orchid bees--you'll see those and more--and you'll...
UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette (foreground), associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, answers questions at the UC Davis Picnic Day. In back is doctoral candidate Gillian Bergmann, who is advised by Vannette and Johan Leveau. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees in the genus Osmia are among the bees that the Rachel Vannette lab studies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Educational and Fun Activities at the UC Davis Bee Haven Open House
Catch and release. Release and catch. No, wait. Catch...examine...and then release. That's what...
An educational and fun activity: the catch-and-release bee activity at the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A six-foot-long worker bee sculpture, the work of Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee and yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, share a purple coneflower in the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
