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A Birthday Visit to the Bohart

When you visit a traditional zoo, you might see lions, tigers and bears. Oh, my! If you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology's petting zoo, you'll see Madagascar hissing cockroaches, stick insects,  tarantulas, cave roaches, black...

Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator, introduces a stick insect, aka walking stick, to Teddy Marlatte, 4, and his mother, Maddy Marlatte of Auburn. In the foreground is Teddy's sister Reagan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tabatha Yang, the Bohart Museum's education and outreach coordinator, introduces a stick insect, aka walking stick, to Teddy Marlatte, 4, and his mother, Maddy Marlatte of Auburn. In the foreground is Teddy's sister Reagan. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum research associate and "zookeeper" Brittany Kohler, a prospective graduate student, shows Teddy Marlatte a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum research associate and "zookeeper" Brittany Kohler, a prospective graduate student, shows Teddy Marlatte a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Watch him walk! Teddy introduces his father, Chris Marlatte, to a walking stick at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Watch him walk! Teddy introduces his father, Chris Marlatte, to a walking stick at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A little love! Teddy Marlatte pets a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A little love! Teddy Marlatte pets a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A stick insect, aka walking stick, receives some recognition. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A stick insect, aka walking stick, receives some recognition. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Chris Marlatte watches as his daughter, Reagan, a year and a half, pets a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Chris Marlatte watches as his daughter, Reagan, a year and a half, pets a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Spotlight on Lynn Kimsey, Director of Bohart Museum of Entomology

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis is currently closed to the public due to COVID pandemic precautions, but a jubilant crew helped celebrate the Feb. 1st birthday of its director, Lynn Kimsey, a UC Davis distinguished...

Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, prepares to cut her birthday cake. (Photo by Tabatha Yang)

Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, prepares to cut her birthday cake. (Photo by Tabatha Yang)

"Budding entomologist" Lynn Kimsey at age 5. This photo hangs in the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

"Budding entomologist" Lynn Kimsey at age 5. This photo hangs in the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Bohart Museum Associate Jeff Smith: A Monarch Kind of Day

Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly and moth collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, had a "Monarch Kind of Day" Wednesday, Aug. 23 at a surprise party heralding his 70th birthday and his 30 years of...

Entomologist Jeff Smith's 70th birthday cake featured a monarch butterfly motif. A 30-year volunteer at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, he curates the butterfly and moth collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Jeff Smith's 70th birthday cake featured a monarch butterfly motif. A 30-year volunteer at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, he curates the butterfly and moth collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Smith's favorite butterflies so a monarch motif appeared on his surprise birthday cake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The monarch is one of Jeff Smith's favorite butterflies so a monarch motif appeared on his surprise birthday cake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) is surrounded by friends and colleagues at his surprise birthday party. They enjoyed carrot cake, ice cream and sparkling apple juice. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist Jeff Smith (center) is surrounded by friends and colleagues at his surprise birthday party. They enjoyed carrot cake, ice cream and sparkling apple juice. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Bug Stops Here

It’s Friday, so it must be Friday lite…   When you’re hosting a birthday party for an entomologist, you have to think “bugs.”   That’s the rule. It’s written right...

Perfect cake for an entomologist

PERFECT CAKE FOR AN ENTOMOLOGIST--What's a perfect birthday cake for an insect scientist? One with bugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lynn Kimsey

PEDALING AWAY--Birthday celebrant Lynn Kimsey, chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, pedals home. (A shoulder injury prompted her to temporarily trade her bicycle for this "chariot.") (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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