Bug Squad

A daily (M-F) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008 and about the wonderful world of insects and those who study them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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With UC Davis students (right) assisting at the Bohart Museum arts-and-crafts table, artists create arthropods and other critters, using modeling clay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

'Undescribed Species' Discovered at the Bohart Museum

March 22, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Spiders have been around for 400 million years and they are an incredibly diverse group with more than 50,000 species described with probably another 200,000 remaining to yet be discovered.
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UC Davis doctoral student Emma Jochim answers questions at her station. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum Open House: Many Legs, Many Eyes, Many Ears, Many Hands

March 21, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, "Many-Legged Wonders," presented March 18 in its Academic Surge Building, proved to be not only "many legs," but many eyes and ears, as families drove from far and wide to see and hear about spiders, scorpions, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes,...
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