Bohart Museum of Entomology

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Bohart Museum of Entomology

Established	1946
Visitors	12000
Director	Lynn Kimsey
Curator	Brennen Dyer[1]
Website	http://bohart.ucdavis.edu/index.html

The Bohart Museum of Entomology was founded in 1946 on the campus of the University of California, Davis. The museum is currently the seventh largest insect collection in North America with more than seven million specimens of terrestrial and freshwater arthropods. At least 90% of these holdings are insects.^[2] The collection is worldwide in scope with the Western Hemisphere, Indonesia, and Australasia particularly well represented.