What do bug enthusiasts say when they can’t find a gift during the winter holidays?

Bah, humbug!

The Bohart Museum of Entomology and the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) to the rescue...with both insect and arachnid-themed gifts!

Bohart Museum 

The Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, Nov. 15 will focus on "The Bees and Their Mimics."

Free and family friendly, the event will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Bohart Museum, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. 

When the Bohart Museum Society hosts its annual pre-Halloween party at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you'll never know what you'll see. This year:

The mysterious population decline of the imperiled Franklin’s bumble bee, which once flourished in a small area of northern California and southern Oregon, is not due to pathogens, but most likely to population bottlenecks and environmental issues, such as fire and drought stressors, according to newly published museum genomic research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host its first open house of the 2025-26 academic year on Sunday, Oct. 5.

 The event,  themed "Museum ABCs: How to Collect and Curate," will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Bohart Museum, located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. It is free and family friendly. Parking is also free.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology has announced its schedule of open houses and special events for the 2025-26 academic year.

The open houses. free and family friendly, are held on weekends at the Bohart base, Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. Admission and parking are free.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, is showing several insect-themed displays in the Vacaville Museum’s six-month-long gallery exhibit, “The Art of Death," underway through Nov. 15 at 213 Buck Ace., Vacaville.

The Bohart Museum, home of a global collection of eight million insect specimens, is sharing educational information involving multiple insect species, as well as the specimens.

"Insects: Life Stages" will set the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sunday afternoon, May 18.

The event, free and family friendly, takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus.

A UC Davis fundraising drive is underway to support the Bohart Museum of Entomology in memory of noted entomologist W. Harry Lange Jr. (1912-2004).

UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro has done it again.

He won the 2025 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, a scientific research project he’s sponsored since 1972 to seek the first cabbage white butterfly of the year in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano. 

The person who collects the first live butterfly, Pieris rapae,  and is judged the winner, receives a pitcher of beer or its equivalent.

Shapiro will be drinking his own beer.