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Does Santa shop at the Bohart? Yes, he does. Items in the gift shop include monarch pins. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Santa Shops at the Bohart!

December 6, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
News flash: Santa shops at the Bohart Museum of Entomology gift shop at UC Davis. Yes, he does.
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UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum, will discuss her work on social wasps at the Bohart Museum open house on Saturday, Jan. 20. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bohart Museum's 2024 Special Events Announced

December 5, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The Bohart Museum of Entomology has announced its 2024 special events, which include three open houses and participation in UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, and UC Davis Picnic Day. All are free and family friendly. The schedule: Saturday, Jan. 20: "Social Wasps," 1 to 4 p.m.
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White fruit fly maggots feeding on the flesh inside of a citrus fruit.
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Don’t move homegrown fruits & vegetables off your property

December 5, 2023
By Lauren Fordyce
Seven invasive fruit fly quarantines are in place throughout California. If you live within one of these quarantine zones, fruits and vegetables should not be moved off the property they were grown on.
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A close up of the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association's all-time best-selling T-shirt, "The Beetles." Each image bears the family name: Phengogidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae.
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The Beatles vs. The Beetles: This T-Shirt Never Fails to Draw Smiles

December 4, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Remember the celebrated image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon crossing Abbey Road in single file outside their studios in London? It's the cover of their final album, "Abbey Road," released Sept. 26, 1969. All the Beatles, except Harrison, are wearing designer suits.
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A look inside a bee hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Honey Bee Is a True Communication Specialist

December 1, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Picture yourself as a waggle-dancing honey bee. You're dancing in the dark, on a small, crowded dance floor with lots of obstacles, and you're trying to communicate to other foragers where that great resource is.
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The late emeritus professor Thomas German of the University of Wisconsin at a centrifuge. German, second author of the paper, died Aug. 27, 2023 before the publication in PNAS.

Scientists Unlock a Long-Hidden Mystery of a Virus That Attacks Ag Crops

November 30, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When UC Davis distinguished professor Diane Ullman of the Department of Entomology and Nematology headed to France on a 2018-19 Fulbright grant to conduct research on tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) with her colleagues, she hoped it would lead to important discoveries to help combat plant viruses t...
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