Posts Tagged: Christine Melvin

The Boh-Art Drawing Helps Mark an Important Anniversary

Insect enthusiasts will love the Bohart Museum of Entomology's latest art piece, commissioned as part of the museum's 75th anniversary. A small graphic is posted on the Bohart Museum website with a link to a large PDF that you can download and...

Santa Is a Robber Fly

Santa may be a jolly ol' elf who gives away presents, but he is also a robber fly. Take it from UC Davis entomology student Wade Spencer. Spencer decided to create a Bohart Museum of Entomology Christmas card--an insect version--and sure enough, Santa...

Santa Claus is a robber fly and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an argid sawfly. (Image by Wade Spencer)

Santa Claus is a robber fly and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an argid sawfly. (Image by Wade Spencer)

Santa driving his sleigh of reindeer, insect-style. (Image by Wade Spencer)

Santa driving his sleigh of reindeer, insect-style. (Image by Wade Spencer)

Happy Hanukkah! With stick insects. (Image by Wade Spencer)

Happy Hanukkah! With stick insects. (Image by Wade Spencer)

She’s a Peach of a Permanent Resident

Roll over, Rosie. Make room for Peaches. Rosie, the popular 24-year-old Chilean rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is approaching the end of her natural life span. So when a UC Davis student...

Peaches is the newest tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Peaches is the newest tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Gathering of the Insect Tribe: Fusing Art with Science

Ready to make some human-insect connections? Cultural entomologist Emmet Brady, host of the Insect News Network, a Davis-based program on radio station KDRT 95.7 FM, is planning something special on Friday, Nov. 14 in Nevada City and you're all...

UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Christine Melvin models the monarch wings on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Christine Melvin models the monarch wings on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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