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Don't Miss Bohart Museum Open House on Nov. 2
You won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Nov. 2. You'll learn how spiders and dragonflies catch their prey You'll watch a tarantula grab its prey You'll learn how moths have evolved to elude bats and their echolocation You'll see carnivorous plants...
A flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Chilean rose-haired tarantula, Grammostola porteri, on a Bohart Museum of Entomology t-shirt. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Happy Arachtober!
It's October and Arachtober: the month to celebrate spiders and other arachnids. As arachnologists will tell you, arachnids are arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroons. Arachnids need love, too,...
Pretty in pink. A jumping spider on a pink rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in yellow. A jumping spider on a yellow rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in green. A jumping spider on green vegetation in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Exciting News from Jason Bond Lab About Trapdoor Spiders
If you like learning about trapdoor spiders, be sure to read the newly published research from the arachnology laboratory of Professor Jason Bond, University of California, Davis. Bond wears several hats: he is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and...
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Gotta Love Those Spiders
Gotta love those spiders! What, you don't? They scare you? And you scream? Fear not. Arachnologists will set the record straight. (Maybe not your scream, though!) Just in time for Halloween, the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar will be on...
This is a Calisoga spider that Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas will discuss at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar on Oct. 30. (Photo by arachnologist Marshal Hedin, San Diego State University)
The Myth of the Brown Recluse Spider in California
Have you ever been bitten by a brown recluse spider in California? It's a myth. There are no established populations of Loxoceles reclusa in California, doctoral candidates Emma Jochim and Xavier Zahnle of the Jason Bond arachnology lab related during their...
