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Seeing Spots at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus, you're likely to see...
The Indian domino cockroach is part of the live "petting zoo" at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology Gift Shop: 'Tis the Season for Water Bears
Move over, teddy bears. There's a new bear in town to covet, cuddle and cherish--a water bear or...
Entomologist Eliza Litsey, who received her bachelor's degree in entomology this year from UC Davis, shows some of the water bears (tardigrades) available in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here's looking at you. Water bears in the Bohart Museum of Entomology are soft and cuddly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insect-themed t-shirts are popular in the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop, especially during the holiday season. This is entomologist Eliza Litsey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon checks out the insect-themed shirts at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith (back), who curates the Lepidoptera section at the Bohart Museum, handmade these pens, available in the gift shop. With him is Robert Michael Pyle of Grays River, Wash., founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's insect-themed books are great gifts for budding entomologists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Butterflies, dragonflies and lady beetles (lady bugs) adorn the t-shirts at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
They Met the Mantids--and Scores of Other Critters
They met the mantids, walking sticks, beetle-mimicking roaches, Madagascar hissing cockroaches,...
A tropical praying mantis, Choeradodis stalii: camouflaged. Lohit Garikipati displayed five of his female praying mantids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Middle school students from the Elk Grove Unified School District talk to praying mantis expert Lohit Garikipati, a UC Davis alumnus who rears mantids. In back is Bohart associate Emma Cluff. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Doctoral student and Bohart associate Ziad Khouri talks to visitors about tarantulas and millipedes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas explains the moth and butterfly collection to a group of Elk Grove middle students. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology alumnus Nicole Tam talks about her beetle-mimicking roaches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology student Ian Clark staffs the family crafts activity, which involved decorating silkworm cocoons for finger puppets. In back are silkworm moth expert İsmail Şeker and UC Davis entomology student Andrew Goffinet. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology student Ben Maples shows a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Gavey)
A Bohart Museum of Entomolgoy visitor gets acquainted with an Australian walking stick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the Lepitoptera section, awaits visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Ann Kao, a 2019 UC Davis graduate who now works at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, crafts insect jewelry. At right is one of the t-shirts from the gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Like to Raise a Butterfly? Or Another Insect? Attend Bohart Open House Nov. 16
A Gulf Fritillary butterfly, Agraulis vanillae, sips nectar from the lavender blossom of a...
A Gulf Fritillary nectars the blossom of a passionflower vine, its host plant, while another Gulf Frit flutters in. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male and a female butterfly find another. These are Gulf Fritillaries, Agraulis vanillae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Gulf Frillary caterpillar munching the leaves of a passionflower. Caterpillars will be displayed at the Bohart Museum open house on Nov. 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Walking the line. A Gulf Fritillary caterpillar crawls along the stem of a passionflower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Like to learn how to raise Madagascar hissing cockroaches? Bohart scientists will tell you how on Nov. 16 at their open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Silkworm moth expert İsmail Şeker, a Turkish medical doctor, will show his newly produced video about the silkworm moth life cycle at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16. (Photo courtesy of İsmail Şeker)
A male praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, as identified by entomologist Lohit Garikipati, UC Davis alumnus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Scary Insects and Lovable Critters at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
Scary critters with mandibles and lovable insects with antennae gathered at the Halloween party at...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, welcomes the crowd to the Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey wore his ghillie suit. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Emma Cluff dressed as "The Mad Hatter" at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Halloween party. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Charlotte Herbert Alberts and husband George Alberts with the parasitoid pinata they created. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The bee family: drone Norman Gershenz, queen bee Leslie Saul-Gershenz, and their pooch, a worker bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Parras Mcgrath drew a lot of comments with this costume. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the first Halloween party for visiting scholar Syed Fahad Shah, a lecturer in the Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's a Halloween party without a spider? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The petting zoo featured a new addition at the Bohart Museum of Entomology: a skull. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
