It's Halloween and scores of trick-or-treaters are donning monarch butterfly costumes. But they can't do justice to the living monarchs, those iconic, majestic butterflies that are always dressed in Halloween colors: black and orange.

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Two co-creators of the monarch chrysalis piñata--Charlotte Herbert Alberts and husband George Alberts--pose with the piñata just before the start of the game. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Why This Monarch Chrysalis Was a Big Hit

October 30th, 2018

A monarch chrysalis at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis proved to be a big hit. Literally.

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UC Davis entomology doctoral candidate Charlotte Herbert Alberts and her husband, George, pose with their Brittany Spaniel, Westley. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Bohart Museum Halloween Party: A Night of Frights and Delights!

October 29th, 2018

What a night of frights and delights! The Bohart Museum Society hosted the Bohart Museum of Entomology's 24th annual pre-Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 27 at the University of California, Davis, billing it as They Come From Within" and promising a haunting night full of frights and delights.

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UC Merced assistant professor Fred Wolf uses this graphic to illustrate his research.

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Learn about the 'Drinking Drosophila and Drunk Drosophila' at UC Davis Seminar

October 26th, 2018

"How do animals filter sensory information from their environment and integrate it with their past experience and their internal states to produce an appropriate behavioral response?" asks Fred Wolf, assistant professor at UC Merced.

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Christian Nansen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, illustrated his research paper, published in PLOS ONE, with this graphic.

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Of Skittles and Magnolia Leaves and Mosquito Eggs

October 25th, 2018

Quick! Can you think of published research that involves Skittles, magnolia leaves and mosquito eggs?

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