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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: What's Good to Know
The 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a "Super Science Day" scheduled Saturday, Feb. 8 promises to be incredible. It's about a day of discovery, a day of exploration, and a day to chat with the UC Davis scientists about their work and...
Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows butterfly specimens to visiting students. She chairs the UC Davis Biodiversity Day, also known as "Super Science Day." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Faces in the Crowd at the Bohart Museum Open House
They discovered, explored, and connected. They met scientists, asked questions, and gained new knowledge about insect science. The recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, like all its open houses throughout the UC Davis...
Bohart Museum associate and UC Davis entomology major Kaitai Liu delights in showing insects from the petting zoo to the crowd. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mike Pitcairn, retired senior environmental scientist-supervisor, California Department of Food and Agriculture, assists with the microscope activity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Open house guest April Heard (foreground) of Escalon watches as her daughter Daphne Heard, 10, touches a stick insect. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crowd gathers around UC Davis doctoral student and entomologist Carla-Cristina “CC” Edwards of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, talks to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two retired teachers from Davis, Kathleen Gamper (left) and Joanne Andressen enjoying the Bohart Museum open house. Both are also accomplished artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Livi Watson, 11, of Davis wearing a favorite bug shirt to the Bohart Museum open house. She enjoys insect science, but is leaning toward a career in the veterinary field. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
M.E.A. McNeil, The Bees, and The Bee Club
When you read the newly published novel, Bee Club, (Nervous Ghost Press) by M.E.A. McNeil, you're immediately struck by the author's intricate knowledge of beekeeping, her talented ability to weave a fascinating story, and her strong...
Worker bees cleaning queen bee cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Journalist M.E.A. McNeil interviewing "Bug Chef" David George Gordon at a UC Davis event on Nov. 1, 2014. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Afternoon in the Lepidoptera Collection
What's his number? 2,530. That's how many specimen drawers that Jeff Smith, volunteer curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology for the past 36 years, has crafted and donated to the "Lep" section. Smith...
Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's global Lepidoptera, chats with guests. In back is Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Lepidoptera collection, holds the rapt attention of three retirees: Susan Knadle (left) and her husband Chuck Salocks of Davis and Carrye Cooper of Redondo Beach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas with two UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (left), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas shows butterfly specimens to UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (right), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis entomology major Oliver Smith, the greeter at the Lepidoptera collection, thanks two guests for attending. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bumble Bee Contest Is Over!
The 2025 bumble bee contest is over. Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis announced today that "we have a winner" in the fifth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial...
