Welcome to the Bohart Museum

The R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology founded in 1946, is located on the University of California, Davis campus. The museum is dedicated to teaching, research and service. We have the seventh largest insect collection in North America, which is worldwide in coverage. The collection holdings total more than seven million specimens, and focus on terrestrial and fresh water invertebrates. The museum is also home of the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity of California’s deserts, mountains, coast and great central valley.

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Insect of the Month

Mt. Hermon June Beetle (Polyphylla barbata) is a member of the family Scarabaeidae, a group containing dung beetles, rhinocerous beetles, and many other well-known insects. This beetle is one of California's endangered insects and can be found in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of the city of San Francisco.

photograph: Jodi M. McGraw (http://www.santacruzsandhills.com/endemic_animals.html)