Posts Tagged: tarantula
A New Look for UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
UC Davis undergraduate students are in for a scientific treat. When the 11th annual UC Davis...
A visitor gets acquainted with an Australian stick insect, aka walking stick, at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Biodiversity Museum Day visitors love taking images of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's tarantulas from its "petting zoo." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Raptor Center volunteer Billy Thein with a golden eagle named Sullivan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Turning Tarantula Venom Into Pain Relief
By Lisa HowardUC Davis Health See Video on YouTube (includes segment with Bruce Hammock, UC...
UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock,who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the project in this screen shot from the YouTube video.
Chris Hamilton to Speak on Tarantula Diversity
Evolutionary biologist and taxonomist Chris Hamilton of the University of Idaho faculty will...
Chris Hamilton of the University of Idaho will present a UC Davis seminar on tarantula diversity on April 21. This is an undescribed species collected on the mountain ranges, the Sky Islands, in southeastern Arizona. (Photo by Brent E. Hendrixson)
Bugs Rule But Other Critters Do, Too, on UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Bugs rule, but other critters do, too, on UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day! You won't want to miss...
A tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A lion specimen at the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, located in Room 1394 of the Academic Surge Building. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A great-horned owl at the California Raptor Center, located at 1340 Equine Lane, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What, Santa Didn't Bring You a Tarantula for Christmas?
Doesn't Santa give everyone a Mexican redknee tarantula for Christmas? Oh, you didn't get...
Mexican redknee tarantula, the new project of 9-year-old Delsin Russell of Vacaville. Santa delivered the much-wanted gift on Christmas Eve. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Delsin Russell of Vacaville, then 8, attended an open house last August at the Bohart Museum of Entomology with his mother, Beth. Here they chat with Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)