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The Roaches Are Ready to Roll! So Is the Virtual UC Davis Picnic Day
The roaches are ready to roll! And so is the virtual UC Davis Picnic Day. The popular cockroach races, hosted by the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA), will take place during the 107th annual UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 17, but you'll see them only on your...
This was a scene at the cockroach races at Briggs Hall during a recent UC Davis Picnic Day. This year it will be viral. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Sharon Lawler will talk about aquatic insects at the 2021 UC Davis Picnic Day. This is from a recent Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Steve Dreistadt of UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program talks to visitors at a recent UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A screen shot of some of the EGSA items available for sale.
The Bug Doctor Is In! Ask Me a Question!
The doctor is in. The Bug Doctor, that is. If you attended the 105th annual UC Davis Picnic Day and headed for Briggs Hall, home of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, you encountered a booth lettered with "Bug Doctor" and a sign that read: “Ask Me About Insects.” The annual...
Doctoral candidate Brendon Boudinot answers questions about insects in the Bug Doctor booth at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student Zachary Griebenow of the Phil Ward lab waits for folks to ask him questions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Miles Dakin, Ph.D. candidate in the Christian Nansen lab, fields a question about insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Brendon Boudinot shares a laugh with his major professor and ant specialist Phil Ward. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Doctor Is In: 'Bug Me'
The handwritten sign at the "Bug Doctor" booth at Briggs Hall during the 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day read "Bug Me with Questions." And attendees did. They asked questions, expressed concerns, and offered comments. Members of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Students' Association, headed by...
Bug Doctor Brendon Boudinot answers a question from Lilliana Phillips, 5, of Carmichael, as her father, William Phillips, watches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral candidate Brendon Boudinot of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology fields a question from a "client" at the Bug Doctor booth at the 104th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ant specialist Zachary Griebenow, a first-year doctoral student in the Phil Ward lab, answers a question in the Bug Doctor booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lilliana Philips, 5, of Carmichael, listens intently as Bug Doctor Zachary Griebenow answers her question: "Do bugs get ear infections?" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ask the Bug Doctor
Okay, what's the heaviest insect in the world? The longest? The fastest runner? The fastest flying insect? The loudest? The smallest? The insect with the greatest wingspan? The Bohart Museum of Entomology's newly published newsletter, written by Lynn Kimsey, director of the museum and a professor...
Aphids cover a rose bud. Some aphids can complete a generation in five days. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Aphids go about their business. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
