嘿嘿视频 will hold its seventh annual , 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, welcoming the public to see what the university collects and studies from the natural world. Parking and admission are free to this family friendly event.
Visitors will have access to 13 museums and collections and their range of displays including dinosaur bones, nematodes, honeybees, hawks, yeast cultures, carnivorous plants and new California condor specimens.
Seven of the museums and collections will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the others from noon to 4 p.m. All but two are within walking distance of one another on the main campus.
- 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
- The arboretum will celebrate Biodiversity Museum Day in the at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
- Plant your very own, pollinator friendly California poppy or showy milkweed in an upcycled, self-decorated pot.
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- Global collection of nearly 8 million insect specimens.
- Biodiversity Museum Day highlights include 500,000-specimen butterfly/moth collection, curated by entomologist Jeff Smith; and a Belize insect collection display by Smith and Bohart associates Fran Keller and Dave Wyatt from their latest expedition.
- Noon-4 p.m.
- Featuring carnivorous plants; fruiting specimens of chocolate and coffee; cacti, succulents and other desert dwellers; and an assortment of winter-blooming South African bulbs.
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- Hmong medicinal and culinary herbs on display.
- Examine plants under microscope.
- Plant-pressing and mounting demonstrations, and plant-pressing for children.
- Noon-4 p.m.
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Flintknapping, atlatl toss and scavenger hunt, plus biological anthropology lab, archaeology lab, zooarchaeology lab and Inuit art exhibit.
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Activities include catch-and-release bee viewing. Also, make 鈥淔eed the Bees鈥 seed cookies.
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- The museum has new California condor specimens.
- Other specimens include Papua New Guinea birds and mammals, reptiles and amphibians, primates and marine fishes.
- Bird and mammal taxidermy demonstrations.
- Noon-4 p.m.
- Live and preserved nematode specimens. Highlights include huge jars of whale intestinal worms.
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- Fossil specimens dating back as far as 550 million years.
- Two collections in a joint exhibition
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- Dozens of yeast species to see and smell, and information on how yeasts and bacteria are important for making fermented foods and beverages (even clothes can be made from microbes).
- Taste Vegemite and Marmite, and kombucha tea.
- Brewery and winery tours.
- Children鈥檚 coloring activities.
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