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For the Love of Insects
How many kids have you seen running and screaming every time they encounter an insect? Maybe not so much when it's a lady beetle (aka ladybug), or a butterfly. But Madagascar hissing cockroaches and stick insects sometimes get many a "yecch" before they get a definite "yay!" Scientists...
Thea Schmidt, 4, of Folsom points excitedly to the tenants of the live petting zoo at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thea Schmidt, 4, delights in holding a stick insect in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elliot Sauder, 7, and his sister Sutton, 9, of Sacramento are eager to look at a butterfly specimen under a microscope at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elliot Sauder, 7, peers at a specimen under a microscope. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Day That Barbie, Bugbie and Bugs Swept Briggs Hall
Think pink? Of course! Marielle Simone Hansel Friedman, a second-year doctoral student in the lab of urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, got swept in the Barbie movie craze last year--like so many others--so this year she decided...
Marielle Hansel Friedman of the Emily Meineke lab talks about scorpions to visitors at Briggs Hall during the UC Davis Picnic Day. In back is Em Jochim of the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In the pink! Staffing the Entomology Graduate Student Association booth are (from left) Marshall Nakatani, Curtis Carlson and Richard Martinez. The T-shirts were among the top three best sellers of the day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Revisiting 'The 13 Bugs of Christmas'
Back in 2010, UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (1944-2022) of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and yours truly, department communications specialist, wondered why no insects appear in "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Zero. Zilch....
A golden honey bee, a Cordovan, nectaring in a Vacaville, Calif., garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A varroa mite attached to a foraging bee in a Vacaville, Calif. garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An 'Invasion' of Household Vampires at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
They saw mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice and bed bugs at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Household Vampires." They learned that "medical entomologist is the study of arthropods (such as insects and ticks) that spread pathogens that cause human disease. It is also...
CC Edwards (left), a doctoral student and mosquito research in the lab of UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, answers questions about mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Luz Maria Robles, public information officer, Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control, answers a question about West Nile disease. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Luz Maria Robles, public information officer, Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control, points out live mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Moriah Garrison, senior entomologist and research coordinator with Carroll-Loye Biological Research (CLBR), showed live ticks and other "household vampires." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo is pictured next to one of his mosquito images. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey (foreground) explains what Davis residents Francisco Flores and son Azeez, 6, are seeing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis doctoral student Christofer Brothers, who studies dragonflies, chats with UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Learn About Mosquitoes, Ticks, Bed Bugs, Lice, and Fleas
You won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Household Vampires," targeting mosquitoes, ticks, bed bugs, lice and fleas. The open house set from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 23 in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis. It's...
UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey at Alcatraz where he has done insect research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey directs the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
