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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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This crew, shown here with nematology faculty member Shahid Siddique, staffed the nematology collection at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. With him (from left) were then doctoral students Alison Coomer (now Blundell), Veronica Casey, Pallavi Shakya and Ching-Jung Lin.
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Right This Way to the UC Davis Nematode Collection!

February 3rd, 2025
Nematodes--and the faculty and graduate students who study them--will share the spotlight from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8 in the Katherine Esau Science Hall. The occasion: the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. The Esau Hall is located near Briggs Hall, off Kleiber Hall Lane.
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Emma "Em" Jochim, UC Davis doctoral candidate, on a field trip
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Meet Butters at the Bohart on Biodiversity Museum Day

January 30th, 2025
Hi, Butters! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, you'll probably meet a scorpion named Butters. It's a new arrival, donated by a retired educator. She did not name it Butters.
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The yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenzkii, on an oak leaf at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park, as photographed on Jan. 11 by Michael Kwong.
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Winning Bumble at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park

January 28th, 2025
What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win a regional bumble bee contest, a contest you didn't know about at the time.
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