Photo Gallery: Bohart Museum Open House on Bees and Their Mimics

Doctoral candidates Alexa "Lexie" Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab and Abigail "Abby" Abby Lehner of the Neal Williams lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, organized the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Bees and Their Mimics." See story.

Here are some of the images (by Kathy Keatley Garvey):

Some differences between bees, wasps and flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Graduate student Skye Austin of the Department of Evolution and Ecology is ready to answer questions on wasps. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Abby Lehner of the Neal Williams lab created this drawing of pollinators on a flower for Bohart Museum open house attendees to cover. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Helen Ortiz, a first-year entomology major, is engaged in coloring pollinators on a flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Which is a bee and which is not? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Postdoctoral researcher Aramee Diethelm of the Elizabeth Crone lab answers questions about which pollinators can sting. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jeff Smith, curator of the Bohart Museum's Lepidoptera collection, answers questions about moths that resemble bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Fly specialist Martin Hauser of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, explains the differences between flies and bees.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) f

One of the displays at the Bohart Museum open house asked viewers to spot the insect misidentifications. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart Museum associate Greg Kareofelas shows part of the Lepidoptera collection to Kandyce Turner of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Postdoctoral researcher Lucia Weinman of the Neal Williams lab answers a question about bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas shows Jennifer Oliveira of Napa, a member of the UC Master Gardeners, some of the Lepidoptera collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The youngest visitor at the Bohart Museum open house, themed "Bees and Their Mimics," was three-month-old Ellie Hooten of Sacramento, who came dressed in her bee-motif outfit. With her are her parents Sinead Clark and Mason Hooten. Mason, a UC Berkeley alumnus, once worked in the lab of UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emerita Frank Zalom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Hosts and guests at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open houses enjoy sharing their love of insects. Here UC Davis entomology major Dylan Vega (kneeling and wearing a beetle shirt) shows a visitor the tenants of the petting zoo, which include stick insects, Madagascar hissing cockroaches and tarantulas.

Doctoral candidates Lexie Martin (left) and Abby Lehner organized the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house.