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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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Bohart Museum associate and UC Davis entomology major Kaitai Liu delights in showing insects from the petting zoo to the crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Faces in the Crowd at the Bohart Museum Open House

January 22nd, 2025
They discovered, explored, and connected. They met scientists, asked questions, and gained new knowledge about insect science. The recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, like all its open houses throughout the UC Davis academic year, is science communication (SciCom) in action.
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Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's global Lepidoptera, chats with guests. In back is Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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An Afternoon in the Lepidoptera Collection

January 20th, 2025
What's his number? 2,530. That's how many specimen drawers that Jeff Smith, volunteer curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology for the past 36 years, has crafted and donated to the "Lep" section. Smith brought another batch to the Bohart Museum at the Jan.
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A male yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on a purple coneflower in Salem, Ore. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bumble Bee Contest Is Over!

January 17th, 2025
The 2025 bumble bee contest is over. Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis announced today that "we have a winner" in the fifth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum.
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