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You can t miss it. And it s perfect for a “bear hug.”
Artist Solomon Bassoff and Bohart Museum director Lynn Kimsey stand by the tardigrade sculpture. (Photo courtesy of Solomon Basshoff)
The newly installed sculpture of a tardigrade, or water bear, promises not only to be a cuddly campus landmark but it may be the world s largest and only sculpture of its kind. It weighs 2,112 pounds and measures 6 feet long and nearly 3 feet high, whereas in real life, tardigrades are microscopic.
The sculpture, located in front of the Academic Surge, anchors the entrance to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, which houses one of the world s largest tardigrade collections.
Search on for the first bumblebee of the year
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The Bohart Museum of Entomology is sponsoring a two-county contest in memory of the late Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, to find the first bumblebee of the year in Solano and Yolo counties.
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Be on the lookout for the first bumblebee of the year in Yolo and Solano counties.
In memory of native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp (1933-2019), UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, the Bohart Museum of Entomology is sponsoring the inaugural Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest.
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The late Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is sponsoring a two-county contest in his memory to find the first bumblebee of the year in Solano and Yolo counties. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
See a bee, snap a photo for Bohart Museum contest
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is sponsoring the inaugural Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest.
Thorp, 85, who died June 7, 2019, was a global authority on bumblebees and distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at the Univerity of California, Davis, and always looked forward to seeing the first bumblebee of the year.
Is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer really a mantis?
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A Santa riding a praying mantis at the Davis home of UC Davis entomologists Robert and Lynn Kimsey is drawing a lot of attention.
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not a reindeer.
And Santa Claus does not
drive a sleigh.
rides a mantis. A masked mantis.
Take it from UC Davis department of entomology and nematology faculty members Robert and Lynn Kimsey.
A masked mantis with Santa astride graces their front yard in Davis. The mantis? It’s probably a
Stagmomantis californica, native to the Western United States and the Kimsey domicile.