Bug Squad

Predators employ a diversity of behavioral and morphological adaptations to successfully capture their insect prey, UC Davis doctoral candidates Christofer Brothers and Emma Em Jochim told the crowd at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house.

If you've ever closely examined a spider web, you know how incredible they are. But if you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Saturday, you could make a spider web--using chopsticks and colorful yarn.

If you're curious about honey bees, queens and juvenile hormones, you'll want to attend or hear the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (ENT) seminar to be presented by apiculturist Eliza Litsey, a former graduate student in the honey bee lab of Elina Lastro Nio.

Butterflies fluttered in, spiders jumped or crawled in, and "Doc" Bohart, holding "Beau," strolled in. That was the scene at the Bohart Museum Society's annual Halloween party, held at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis.

Got legs? Got eight legs? No, not eight unless you're a spider (arachnid). If you're human, you can seek out the Bohart Museum of Entomology's "Got Legs?" T-shirt of a trapdoor spider.