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Learning About the Importance of Blow Flies Through Maggot Art

Young artists learned about the importance of blow flies last Saturday at the Bohart Museum of...

UC Davis Entomology Club members Emi Marrujo (background) and Riley Hoffman staffing the maggot art table and discussing the importance of blow flies and maggots. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Entomology Club members Emi Marrujo (background) and Riley Hoffman staffing the maggot art table and discussing the importance of blow flies and maggots. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Riley Hoffman at the maggot art table at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Riley Hoffman at the maggot art table at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Emi Marrujo assists Phoenix Leeper, 6, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Emi Marrujo assists Phoenix Leeper, 6, of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Emi Marrujo, a fourth-year student majoring in American Studies and minoring in insect biology, psychology and museums studies, tells the young artists the importance of blow flies in the ecosystem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Emi Marrujo, a fourth-year student majoring in American Studies and minoring in insect biology, psychology and museums studies, tells the young artists the importance of blow flies in the ecosystem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Colorful maggot art, signed by "Liv." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Colorful maggot art, signed by "Liv." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ready for Maggot Art at the Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House?

Children's faces light up when they create maggot art. This is how they do it: They pick up a...

Maggot art in the making. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Maggot art in the making. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

In maggot art, is the maggot the artist or is the artist the one who dips it in paint and lets it crawl around on a piece of paper? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

In maggot art, is the maggot the artist or is the artist the one who dips it in paint and lets it crawl around on a piece of paper? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Missing Mistletoe and the Non-Purple Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly

You may not recognize mistletoe unless it sports a red bow and is hanging over a doorway during the...

Mistletoe infests this Modesto ash in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mistletoe infests this Modesto ash in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is the Great Purple Hairstreak, Atlides halesus. It is misnamed; it is not purple, but iridescent blue. Its host plant is mistletoe. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)

This is the Great Purple Hairstreak, Atlides halesus. It is misnamed; it is not purple, but iridescent blue. Its host plant is mistletoe. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)

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,...

Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, on lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Native Plants Part of Landscape of Gorman Museum of Native American Art

"When the Gorman Museum of Native American Art relocated to a new space, campus partners...

Black-faced bumble bee, Bombus californicus, on Purple Ginny sage, Salvia coahuilensis. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Black-faced bumble bee, Bombus californicus, on Purple Ginny sage, Salvia coahuilensis. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading for a redbud, Cercis canadensis, in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in the spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading for a redbud, Cercis canadensis, in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in the spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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