Bug Squad

 If you've ever been to a Bohart Museum of Entomology house, you'll see faculty, staff and students staffing the event and interacting with visitors.You may visit the petting zoo and hold a Madagascar hissing cockroach, a walking stick or a giant cave cockroach. A giant cave cockroach? What's that? It's…

 The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Museum ABCs: How to Collect and Curate,"  drew scores of insect enthusiasts.Held from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, in the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus, the event attracted visitors from as far away as Arizona and as…

 Congrats to Professor Jason Bond,  newly selected executive associate dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.Bond, an arachnologist, is the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and the former associate…

 A praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, is hanging out in a patch of African blue basil in a Vacaville garden.Me: "Whatcha doing, Ms. Mantis?"Ms. Mantis: "Oh, just watching the bees. Look at how much pollen and nectar they're collecting! It's a bee-utiful thing!"Me: "Just watching them?"Ms. Mantis: …

 So much to see, so much to do, so much to learn...If you're an insect enthusiast or a budding entomologist or just curious, you especially won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house,  "Museum ABCs: How to Collect and Curate," set Sunday, Oct. 5.The open house, free and family…