Posts Tagged: Emily Bzdyk

Bugs at the Bohart

When the Bohart Museum Society throws a Halloween party, you can bet bugs will be there.In costume.Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, located at 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive, UC Davis campus, knows that a Halloween party...

UC Davis graduate student Emily Bzdyk came dressed as a butterfly. She creates insect jewelry sold at the Bohart.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis graduate student Emily Bzdyk came dressed as a butterfly. She creates insect jewelry sold at the Bohart. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Insect photographer Tom Roach of Lincoln came dressed as a bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Insect photographer Tom Roach of Lincoln came dressed as a bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Entomologist and an Artist

If you’re a first-year graduate student in entomology, you spend much of your time buried in books or conferring with your major professor.  Emily Bzdyk, who is pursuing her doctorate in entomology at UC Davis, does that, too--and more. She's heavily...

Emily Bzdyk

EMILY BZDYK created this pen-and-ink drawing of a leafcutter bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee Earrings

INTRICATE BEE EARRINGS, the work of entomologist-artist Emily Bzdyk. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Going Buggy

Let's go buggy at the Bohart!The Bohart Museum of Entomology, which houses more than seven million insect specimens at its facility on the University of California, Davis campus, has extended its hours to include several weekends.The first will be...

Praying Mantis

THIS PRAYING MANTIS gets lots of attention at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Emily and the Tiger

FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT Emily Bzdyk, UC Davis Department of Entomology, with a tiger hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina grandidieri), native to Madagascar. The "tiger" is one of the live insects at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hissers in the Bohart

It’s a comfortable life. Eat, sleep and mate. And then eat, sleep and mate again. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a popular attraction at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis. The museum, directed by entomologist...

Different Reactions

UC DAVIS graduate students Emily Bzdyk (left) and Fran Keller show different reactions to the cockroaches at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. Keller admits to liking other insects better; she's working on beetles for her doctorate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bigger than Big

MADAGASCAR HISSING COCKROACH, aka "hisser," is bigger than big. It can reach three inches in length. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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