Posts Tagged: Lauren Camp
Feeding Time for Bed Bugs: From Flat to Fat in Minutes
Brother, sister...can you spare a meal? If you're rearing a bed bug colony, they need blood. Yours, if you don't mind. Someone else's, if there's no one else around. A big draw at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's recent open house, "Parasite Palooza," was a bed-bug feeding demonstration,...
Nematologist/parasitologist Lauren Camp, who received her doctorate at UC Davis last December, volunteered for the bed bug-feeding demonstration. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum visitors crowd around Charlotte Herbert, a graduate student in entomology at UC Davis, as she participates in a bed bug-feeding demonstration. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang (standing at right) explains what bed bug-feeding is all about. Seated is "blood donor" Lauren Camp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's a Nematode? Just Ask Lauren Camp
"What's a nematode?" UC Davis nematologist/parasitologist Lauren Camp gets asked that a lot. In one word: "Worms." Her display table last Sunday, Jan. 22 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's "Parasite Palooza" open house drew dozens of fascinated visitors of all ages. “Nematodes are an...
UC Davis nematologist/parasitologist Lauren Camp discusses her specialty with a visitor at the Bohart Museum's open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lauren Camp kept visitors fascinated at the Bohart Museum's "Parasite Palooza." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis scientist Baohua Li of the Department of Plant Sciences, and his wife, Yao and daughter Annie, 2, check out the nematodes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It Will Be a Parasite Palooza at the Bohart Museum Open House
How much do you know about ticks? How much do you know about nematodes? What would you like to know? You'll be able to learn more about both, plus fleas, mites, lice, bed bugs, botflies and other critters, when the Bohart Museum of Entomology of UC Davis hosts an open house on “Parasite...
Nematologists Corwin Parker (at microscope) and Lauren Camp (back of him) participated in the 2016 UC Davis Museum Diversity Day. Camp, who received her doctorate in entomology in December from UC Davis, is organizing a display for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Jan. 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)