Those are some of the activities planned at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis.
The event, free and open to the public, will be a general open house. “It is simply open hours, but on the weekend, when people don't need to wrestle with parking apps, because parking is free,” said Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator.
Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection, and Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas, will be showing butterfly specimens and answering questions.
The Bohart Museum is the home of a global collection of eight million insect specimens, as well as a live petting zoo, which includes Madagascar hissing cockroaches, stick insects and tarantulas. Its gift shop is stocked with books, t-shirts, hoodies, posters, jewelry, stuffed toy animals, and insect-collecting equipment.
The Bohart Museum is planning four other open houses through May 18:
- 14th annual Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bohart Museum (Eleven museums or collections on campus will be participating. See schedule for other venues)
- Open house on “Venomous vs.Poisonous” from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 2 at the Bohart Museum
- Campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 12; the Bohart Museum pop-up tent will be at Briggs Hall; the museum itself will be closed
- “Insects: Life Stages” from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 18 at the Bohart Museum
More information is available on the website at https://bohart.ucdavis.edu/ or by contacting bmuseum@ucdavis.edu.
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