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UC Davis Nematologist Chris Pagan, now PhD, to Present Exit Seminar on Metabarcoding

Nematologist Christopher Pagan, who received his doctorate in the fall of 2024 from UC Davis, will deliver his exit seminar on "Soil Nematode...

Nematologist Chris Pagan answers questions at a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. The 2025 event takes place Feb. 8. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nematologist Chris Pagan answers questions at a UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. The 2025 event takes place Feb. 8. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Winning Bumble at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park

What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win...

Tabatha Yang (left), education an outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology with the contest winners Michael Kwong an Kaylen Teves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tabatha Yang (left), education an outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology with the contest winners Michael Kwong an Kaylen Teves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Contest winners Michael Kwong and Kaylen Teves look at butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Contest winners Michael Kwong and Kaylen Teves look at butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Afternoon in the Lepidoptera Collection

What's his number? 2,530. That's how many specimen drawers that Jeff Smith, volunteer curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the...

Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's global Lepidoptera, chats with guests. In back is Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology's global Lepidoptera, chats with guests. In back is Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Lepidoptera collection, holds the rapt attention of three retirees: Susan Knadle (left) and her husband Chuck Salocks of Davis and Carrye Cooper of Redondo Beach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jeff Smith (foreground), curator of the Lepidoptera collection, holds the rapt attention of three retirees: Susan Knadle (left) and her husband Chuck Salocks of Davis and Carrye Cooper of Redondo Beach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas with two UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (left), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas with two UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (left), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas shows butterfly specimens to UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (right), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas shows butterfly specimens to UC Davis students: Emily Anne Richter (right), a chemistry major, and Lalinna Naini, majoring in environmental toxicology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis entomology major Oliver Smith, the greeter at the Lepidoptera collection, thanks two guests for attending. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis entomology major Oliver Smith, the greeter at the Lepidoptera collection, thanks two guests for attending. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Feb. 8 is UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: A Super Science Day

Have you ever wished that you and your family and friends could visit the UC Davis campus and chat with the scientists about their research and see...

Visitors examine the insect specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Visitors examine the insect specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

At the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, Miles Pickard, 4 and his mother Marissa Pickard checked out the Center for Plant Diversity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

At the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, Miles Pickard, 4 and his mother Marissa Pickard checked out the Center for Plant Diversity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Paleontology Collection, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, draws scores of visitors during UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Paleontology Collection, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, draws scores of visitors during UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lisa Pacumio with great-horned owl at the California Raptor Center on Old Davis Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lisa Pacumio with great-horned owl at the California Raptor Center on Old Davis Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A nematode display at the Katherine Esau Science Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A nematode display at the Katherine Esau Science Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Renewing Memories of the UC Davis Bee Haven

It's like “Old Home Week” or “Old Home Day” when Michelle Monheit visits the UC Davis Bee Haven on Bee Biology...

Michelle Monheit of Woodland stands by "Miss Bee Haven," sculpted by Donna Billick. Michelle has visited the garden since childhood when her mother was working on bee research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Michelle Monheit of Woodland stands by "Miss Bee Haven," sculpted by Donna Billick. Michelle has visited the garden since childhood when her mother was working on bee research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen and researcher Susan Monheit work in the beginning stages of the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen and researcher Susan Monheit work in the beginning stages of the UC Davis Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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