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A Moth Named for Trump, Snopes, and the Bohart Museum of Entomology
It's not every day that Snopes "gets involved" in setting the record straight regarding a moth...
These are images of the moth, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a species that Bohart Museum scientists collected in the Algodones Dunes. The Bohart Museum loaned the collection to evolutionary biologist and systematist Vazrick Nazari of Canada, who discovered it was a new species and named it. (Images by Vazrick Nazari, posted in ZooKeys)
Bruce Hammock and 'Why Science Is Full of Surprises'
It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock is interviewed by Juliette Smith of Fox40 News. (Screen shot of Hammock in his lab, courtesy of Fox40 News)
Entomologist Jeff Smith: The Master Builder of Insect Specimen Drawers
When you slide open the butterfly and moth drawers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC...
Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum, stands by the drawers he crafted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart Museum drawers are intricately crafted. This one is of pine. Curator Jeff Smith has crafted and donated 2,487 of them for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a drawer in the Lepidoptera collection, Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Curator Jeff Smith: Spreading the Wings of Butterflies
Do you know how to spread the wings of a butterfly specimen? It's not as easy as it looks, but...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collections, shows visitors how to spread the wings of a butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Lepidoptera collection, discusses projects with UC Davis doctoral alumna Fran Keller, professor at Folsom Lake College, a UC Davis lecturer, and a Bohart research associate/affiliate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Know Your ABC's: Arthropods, Bohart and Collecting
Folks are looking forward to the next open house at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC...
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with a drawer of monarch specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a male monarch on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A closeup of a female monarch on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
