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LinkedInPosts Tagged: Christine Melvin
The Boh-Art Drawing Helps Mark an Important Anniversary
Insect enthusiasts will love the Bohart Museum of Entomology's latest art piece, commissioned as part of the museum's 75th anniversary. A small graphic is posted on the Bohart Museum website with a link to a large PDF that you can download and color. It's the work of museum associate...
Santa Is a Robber Fly
Santa may be a jolly ol' elf who gives away presents, but he is also a robber fly. Take it from UC Davis entomology student Wade Spencer. Spencer decided to create a Bohart Museum of Entomology Christmas card--an insect version--and sure enough, Santa is a robber fly. And Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
Santa Claus is a robber fly and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an argid sawfly. (Image by Wade Spencer)
Santa driving his sleigh of reindeer, insect-style. (Image by Wade Spencer)
Happy Hanukkah! With stick insects. (Image by Wade Spencer)
She’s a Peach of a Permanent Resident
Roll over, Rosie. Make room for Peaches. Rosie, the popular 24-year-old Chilean rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is approaching the end of her natural life span. So when a UC Davis student donated the same species, a four-year-old...
Peaches is the newest tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Gathering of the Insect Tribe: Fusing Art with Science
Ready to make some human-insect connections? Cultural entomologist Emmet Brady, host of the Insect News Network, a Davis-based program on radio station KDRT 95.7 FM, is planning something special on Friday, Nov. 14 in Nevada City and you're all invited. It's called "Cross Pollination: a...
UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Christine Melvin models the monarch wings on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
