UC Davis doctoral candidate and dragonfly expert Christofer Brothers will discuss his rhyming prose on dragonflies at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Saturday, May 16.

He'll be presenting a 15-minute talk at 3:30 on "Midair Basket Weaving: A Doggerel of Dragonflies and Damselflies," representing his preliminary work from his dissertation on dragonfly and damselfly hunting behavior. 

The Bohart Museum of Entomology will host an open house, "Buzz Words: Insects in Literature," from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 16, that will feature two bee book authors, Krystle Hickman of Los Angeles and UC Davis faculty member Felicity Muth, and dragonfly "rhyming prose" author Christofer Brothers, a UC Davis doctoral candidate who researches dragonflies.

The Bohart Museum is located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus.