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Suds for a Bug, or a Pitcher of Beer for a Butterfly
Suds for a bug? A bug for some suds? The annual “Beer for a Butterfly” contest, launched in 1972 by butterfly guru Art Shapiro, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, gets underway Jan. 1. The first person to find the first live cabbage white butterfly, Pieris...
Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Congrats to Danielle Rutkowski: Early Career Entomology Award
We're delighted that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski, a UC Davis doctoral alumna and now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State University, has just received a Royal Entomological Society Early Career Entomology Award, “Highly Commended,” for her...
This is one of the bumble bees that microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski studies: a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Gift Shop: What's Not to Like About a Bug?
What's not to like about a bug? And there are more of them to like than you think! About a million described species of insects inhabit our planet. That's about 80 percent of the world's species, scientists say. "Most authorities agree that there are more insect species that have not been...
Bohart Museum of Entomology student intern Jasmine Chow holds a selection of bug pins available in the museum's gift shop.
A garden spider, Argiope trifasciata, in a Vacaville garden. The Bohart Museum of Entomology has an Argiope pin in its gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of a unique, entomological holiday card, available for sale in the Bohart Museum gift shop. It is the work of UC Davis alumnus Allen Chew, an entomologist and artist.
Can You Spare a Leg?
If you collect insect specimens, can you spare a leg? It's for science. UC Berkeley doctoral alumnus Brad Balukjian, CEO and Intern, Islephile LLC, Concord, and research associate, California Academy of Sciences, recently posted this on the Pacific Coast...
Some of the insects that entomologist Fran Keller and crew collected in Belize for the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
UC Davis Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology: Meet Kaitai Liu
Back in 2011, three UC Davis entomology faculty members launched the campuswide Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology (RSPIB) to provide "academically strong and highly motivated undergraduates with a closely mentored research experience in biology." The three founders and directors: UC...
UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.
Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
