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These rocks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology depict favorite insects: honey bees and ladybugs (lady beetles.) The larger rock, inspired by Valentine's Day, is titled "Love Bugs." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Why These Rock Artists Are Rock Stars

January 22, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Rock artists, all. Those who painted rocks at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Jan. 18 were not just rock artists. They were rock stars, painting creative, inspirational and seasonal illustrations.
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Tien Ferreira, 4, of Fairfield, displays her blue butterfly cape, as Bohart associate Greg Karofelas holds a collection of blue morpho butterflies. In back is Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera section. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Eyes on the Butterflies' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

January 21, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Tien Ferreira, 4, of Fairfield knew just what to do. She donned her special outfit, a blue butterfly cape, and headed over to the open house at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, to see the blue butterflies. The event, held Saturday afternoon, Jan.
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Doctoral student Ann Holmes holds up a bat specimen. Next to her is Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum Open House: A Science of a Day

January 20, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a "Science of a Day" at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Saturday afternoon, Jan. 18. For three hours, six UC Davis doctoral students discussed their research and fielded questions from the 270-plus guests, ranging from pre-kindergarten students to senior citizens.
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Mexican free-tailed batsleaving Yolo Causeway at dusk on Sept. 10, 2019. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bohart Museum Open House: What Insects Do Bats Eat?

January 13, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
When you watch bats emerge at dusk in the summer from the Yolo Causeway, have you ever wondered what insects they eat? UC Davis doctoral candidate Ann Holmes has--and she's doing research on what's in their guano (feces).
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At last year's Bohart Museum open house on student research, graduate student Yao Cai (left) and undergraduate Christopher Ocoa, both of the Joanna Chiu lab, chatted with visitors about their fruit fly and monarch research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bohart Museum Open House: From Ants to Bats to Monarchs

January 10, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
How do fruit flies tell time? How do monarch butterflies know when to migrate? How can assassin flies overcome prey much larger than they are? How do bark beetles wreak havoc in our forests? What insects do bats eat?
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What does it mean to be a Director on the California 4-H Management Board?

January 9, 2020
By Suzanne Morikawa
4-H is operated as a partnership of staff and volunteers (and many of those volunteers are youth members!). Volunteers are critical to the program and 4-H simply couldn't exist without them. The roles we take on as volunteers can vary widely in scope and in how concrete our objectives are.
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Jefferson Wright, an eighth grader at Emerson Middle School, Davis, enjoys attending the annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. "I have always liked museum day and every year It gets better and better. I can't wait to go this year!" He's pictured in the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology.
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UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: An Unforgettable Science-Based Day

January 2, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
He says it well. Jefferson Wright, the eighth grader at Emerson Middle School, Davis, who is pictured on the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day website, says: "I have always liked museum day and every year it gets better and better.
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