Beetles fans swarm Bohart Museum

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

A swarm of beetle fans visited the Bohart Museum for Beetle Mania at the Bohart Museum Entomology and Nematology on Sunday, Jan. 22. With a petting zoo of insects, families filled the museum and the hallway to hold Madagascar hissing cockroaches and stick insects.

Donning an “I Love Bugs” shirt, 9-year-old Rose Hager, learned about the scorpion beetle that glows under ultraviolet light. She said she loves bugs because of their different looks. “Some are shiny and iridescent. There are lots of different types of bugs.”

“They’re just awesomely diverse,” the museum’s director and Distinguished Professor of Entomology, Lynn Kimsey, said of the beetles there. Showcasing the size variation of beetles behind a glass display, a featured beetle, the rhinoceros