Open Houses: What's on Tap at the Bohart Museum?
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 event schedule also includes the Bohart's participation in the 15th annual campuswide UC Davis Bioiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Bohart, and the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 18. All entomological activities hosted by UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology take place at Briggs Hall.
The schedule:
Sunday, Oct. 5, 1 to 4 p.m.: "Museum ABC's: How to Collect and Curate."
Saturday, Nov. 15, 1 to 4 p.m.: "Bees and Their Mimics." UC Davis graduate students Lexie Martin and Abigail Lehner are coordinating this open house.
Saturday, Feb. 21 (time pending): 15th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a campuswide event co-founded by the Bohart Museum.
Sunday, March 15, 1 to 4 p.m.: "Eight Legged Encounters!" This involves spiders.
Saturday, April 18: 1 to 4 p.m., UC Davis Picnic Day at Briggs Hall.
Saturday, May 16, 1 to 4 p.m.: "Buzz Words: Insects in Literature." UC Davis graduate students Grace Horne, Mia Lippey and Marielle Hansel Friedman are co-chairing this event.
The Bohart Museum, founded in 1946 by UC Davis entomologist and professor Richard "Doc" Bohart (1913-2007), houses a global collection of eight million insect specimens, plus a live petting zoo, including Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and tarantulas; and an insect-themed gift shop, stocked with T-shirts, hoodies, books, posters, jewelry, stuffed animals and more.
Director of the Bohart is professor Jason Bond, the Evett and Marion Schindler Endowed Chair of Insect Systematics, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and executive associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. For more information on the Bohart Museum, email bmuseum@ucdavis.edu.