Essig Museum of Entomology

Name: Essig Museum of Entomology
Address: Berkeley, CA, 94720, US
Telephone: +15106430804
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Essig Museum of Entomology

The Essig Museum of Entomology is a world-class terrestrial arthropod collection with a historical focus on surveying the insect fauna of California.

Today that focus has broadened to include the eastern Pacific Rim and the islands of the Pacific Basin.

05/19/2026

Three very different morphs of from the same batch of eggs.

04/23/2026

Join us this Friday (4/24) at 10 am (Pacific Time) for Essig Brunch. We are excited to have Gene Hall, a researcher and the manager at University of Arizona’s Insect Collection, give a virtual talk titled “Featherwing Beetles: A Stroll through Ptiliid Ptown.” Please join us for bagels and coffee!

The seminar will be held in a hybrid format, with the in person seminar being held in VLSB 2063 and the zoom linked in our bio.

03/20/2026

Join us for Essig Brunch today (3/20) at 10am where Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza, a professor at University of Illinois - Chicago, give a virtual talk titled “Bouncing together: behavioral and biomechanical defenses in Neotropical arachnids”

The seminar will be held in VLSB 2063 or over zoom (link in bio)

03/18/2026

As spring begins, take a look at some of the insects we’ve spotted at the UC Berkeley Pollinator Garden 🌸🐝🐞

photographed by: .maza 📸

03/05/2026

Join us this Friday (3/6) at 10 am (Pacific Time) for Essig Brunch where Dr. Megumi Fuse, a professor at San Francisco State University, will be giving an in-person talk titled “Manduca sexta as a Model for Chronic Pain.” Please join us for bagels and coffee in VLSB 2063 or on zoom (link in bio!)

02/27/2026

Please join us this Friday, February 27, as Dr. Hillary Sardiñas, an ESPM alum and CDFW’s statewide pollinator coordinator, presents “Pollinator Conservation in California: CDFW Programs and Permitting Guidance.” The seminar will be held in person in VLSB 2063 as well as on zoom at 10am, link in bio. We look forward to seeing you there!!

02/24/2026

Over 300 people visited the Essig Museum during our Darwin (Evolution) Day tours on February 13 and 14. Besides our favorite insect and spider cases, we displayed specimens from the UC Botanical Garden, UC & Jepson Herbaria, UC Museum of Paleontology, and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

02/09/2026

Essig Museum News - https://mailchi.mp/5db2a75e08ee/essig-museum-news

Welcome to our new Interim Faculty Director, Rodrigo Almeida. Congratulations Pete Oboyski, the new President of the Entomology Collections Network. A new documentary about Monarchs. Join us for Darwin (Evolution) Day this Friday and Saturday (February 13-14).

02/06/2026

Join us tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 6) at 10:00am (Pacific Time) for an Essig Brunch seminar featuring Dr. Baltazar Gonzalez on Blue Orchard Bees in California.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83346886133?pwd=DcWcx4CXFZgP5R7iazootNgaXJZ75l.1

12/30/2025

Essig Museum News - An exciting year ahead - https://mailchi.mp/7d77ee3a4d9d/essig-museum-news-an-exciting-year-ahead

We're expanding into our new space in 2026. Darwin Day is coming (February 13-14). Northern Lepidopterists meeting at Essig Museum on 31 January 2026.

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Berkeley, CA
94720

Telephone

+15106430804

Website

http://essig.berkeley.edu/

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