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UC Davis Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology: Meet Kaitai Liu

Back in 2011, three UC Davis entomology faculty members launched the campuswide Research...

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

UC Davis student entomologist Kaitai Liu exults after finding a rain beetle on a field trip. He plans to become an entomology professor and study rain beetles.

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum of Entomology volunteer Kaitai Liu, a UC Davis entomology major, introduces an open house visitor, Eden Jett, 7, of Berkeley, to a stick insect. Eden has her sights set on becoming an entomologist. She and her mother, Peg, brought dragonfly cookies to a 2022 open house themed "Dragonflies and Spiders." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Apiculturist: Apivectoring Defined

Do you know what apivectoring is? Bee...

A honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. Managed bees such as bumble bees and honey bees are used to transfer a powder form of a biological control agent from flower to flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. Managed bees such as bumble bees and honey bees are used to transfer a powder form of a biological control agent from flower to flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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)

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)

Bohart Museum of Entomology Gearing Up for 2025

Drum roll... The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is...

Visitors to an upcoming Bohart Museum of Entomology open house will learn the differences between venomous and poisonous. This jumping spider is venomous. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Visitors to an upcoming Bohart Museum of Entomology open house will learn the differences between venomous and poisonous. This jumping spider is venomous. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If a Praying Mantis Could Greet You...'Nice to Eat You'

They don't communicate like we do, but if praying mantises could talk, do you think they...

Male (top) and female praying mantises, Stagmomantis limbata, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Male (top) and female praying mantises, Stagmomantis limbata, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male mantis has lost his head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male mantis has lost his head. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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