All about the Bohart Museum of Entomology
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is a museum that has millions of insects to see. It is located in the UC Davis university.
The Bohart Museum was founded in 1946. It was named after Dr. Richard M. Bohart. He taught general entomology at UC Davis, which means he was an expert on the study of insects.
The Bohart Museum has the largest collection in North America. They have more than 7 million specimens or types of insects! The Bohart Museum has been collecting insects since 1946. It officially became a museum in 1983 where you can look at insects and get tours.
Every year they get 40,000 specimens or insects! They get insects from all over the world, for example Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and the Middle East. They have 150,000 moths!
They have the world’s largest collection of butterflies! Also world’s largest collection of water bears insects! They have 4,500 swallowtail butterflies.
If you want to have a birthday party with a theme about bugs because you love them so much, you can reserve a tour at the Bohart Museum. This is possible.
A 12-year-old boy from Mesa, Arizona loved bugs and was very interested in them. His name is Ty Elowe. UC Davis made it possible for this boy to have his birthday celebration there. His mother told the museum his son wants to be an entomologist and is very interested in insects.
Ty Elowe was able to get a complete tour of the Bohart and he even got to pet a hissing cockroach, a walking stick, and even a tarantula! On my tour, I also got to pet the Madagascar hissing cockroach!
Finally, the collection of insects at the Bohart Museum are the following. 30 percent are bees, wasps and ants. 20 percent are beetles. 18 percent are moths and butterflies. 15 percent are tree bugs. 12 percent are flies. 3 percent are mantids, lice and cockroaches. 1 percent are tardigars, spiders, millipedes and centipedes. Here is a graph that shows what you can find at the Bohart Museum.