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For the Love of Insects
How many kids have you seen running and screaming every time they encounter an insect? Maybe not...
Thea Schmidt, 4, of Folsom points excitedly to the tenants of the live petting zoo at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thea Schmidt, 4, delights in holding a stick insect in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elliot Sauder, 7, and his sister Sutton, 9, of Sacramento are eager to look at a butterfly specimen under a microscope at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Elliot Sauder, 7, peers at a specimen under a microscope. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's More Fun Than Netting a Butterfly?
What's more fun that netting a butterfly? Netting two (or more) butterflies. UC Davis doctoral...
Braden Nguyen, 3, of Davis, stretches to net a paper butterfly tossed by UC Davis doctoral student Christofer Brothers at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eighteen-month-old Owen Nguyen of Davis checks out a vial holding a bug. At right is UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Future entomologists? The Nguyen brothers of Davis--Branden, 3, and Owen, 18 months old--pose with UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Owen Nguyen, 18 months old, looks at a bee vacuum at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. Scientists use these to capture, identify and release bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Paying Tribute to Richard 'Doc' Bohart
"His eyes seem to be following us everywhere." So quipped UC Davis distinguished professor emerita...
Only three directors have led the Bohart Museum of Entomology since 1946. Pictured are hymenopterist Lynn Kimsey, director from 1990 to Feb. 1, 2024, and arachnologist Jason Bond, director since Feb. 1. The portrait shows Richard "Doc" Bohart, who founded the insect museum in 1946. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A portrait of Richard "Doc" Bohart graces a wall overlooking a celebratory cake at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's Sept. 28th open house. "Doc" was born Sept. 28, 2013 in Palo Alto and founded the UC Davis insect museum, now known as the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond addresses the crowd, with former director Lynn Kimsey, now a UC Davis distinguished professor emerita. Bond is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum director Professor Jason Bond cuts the cake while Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator serves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Watch the Science of Entomology Unfold at Bohart Museum of Entomology Open House
You can watch the science of entomology unfold at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house...
UC Davis distinguished professor emerita Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum for 34 years until her retirement on Feb. 1, 2024, listens as the new director, Professor Jason Bond praises her at a retirement party. Bond is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and associate dean, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
At a recent Bohart Museum open house, doctoral student Iris Quayle (left) of the Jason Bond lab and Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College chat with a visitor. Keller, a UC Davis doctoral alumna, is a Bohart research associate and also a lecturer, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Want to Learn More about Mosquitoes and Ticks?
Want to learn more about mosquitoes and ticks? UC Davis doctoral student and medical entomologist...
UC Davis doctoral student and medical entomologist CC Edwards dragging for ticks at Bodega Bay.
