Congratulations to UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia Winokur of the Chris Barker lab who won the $2600 Hollandsworth Prize for best student research presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association's annual conference, held recently in Reno.

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With UC Davis students (right) assisting at the Bohart Museum arts-and-crafts table, artists create arthropods and other critters, using modeling clay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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'Undescribed Species' Discovered at the Bohart Museum

March 22nd, 2023

"Spiders have been around for 400 million years and they are an incredibly diverse group with more than 50,000 species described with probably another 200,000 remaining to yet be discovered.

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UC Davis doctoral student Emma Jochim answers questions at her station. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bohart Museum Open House: Many Legs, Many Eyes, Many Ears, Many Hands

March 21st, 2023

The UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, "Many-Legged Wonders," presented March 18 in its Academic Surge Building, proved to be not only "many legs," but many eyes and ears, as families drove from far and wide to see and hear about spiders, scorpions, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes,...

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UC Davis doctoral candidates Xavier Zahnle and Emma Jochim and doctoral student Iris Quayle of the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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The Myth of the Brown Recluse Spider in California

March 20th, 2023

Have you ever been bitten by a brown recluse spider in California? It's a myth.

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A jumping spider--note the green "fangs" (chelicerae)--peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Even Spiders Are Irish on St. Patrick's Day...See 'Em at Bohart Open House on March 18

March 17th, 2023

On St. Patrick's Day, everybody and everything is Irish. That includes spiders.

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