Bohart Museum collections drawers
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The collections in the Bohart Museum began as the contents of two Schmitt boxes.
From there they developed as teaching and research collections for the Department
of Entomology, at the University of California Farm in Davis in 1946. In 1966 the
decision was made to maintain a type collection, which now contains more than 1500
primary types. By 1969 the collection consisted of 100,000 specimens. In 1983 the
Entomology Research Collection was officially named after Professor Emeritus Richard
M. Bohart. By 1995 the collection holdings has grown to 6 million curated specimens
from around the world. The museum moved into a new facility funded by the National
Science Foundation and the University of California, Davis.
Now, in the new millennium the museum now houses more than 7 million specimens and
is growing at the rate of about 50,000 specimens each year. We have received two
biological infrastructure grants from the National Science Foundation. The firsts
grant to improve the scale insect collection in 1999 and a current grant to renovate
and integrate existing and donated mosquito collections.
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