Meet Butters at the Bohart on Biodiversity Museum Day

Hi, Butters! When you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8, you'll probably meet a scorpion named “Butters.” It's a new arrival, donated by a retired educator. She did not name it Butters. The Bohart Museum student interns named it that due to it being…well…umm...pleasingly plump, shall we say. Or pudgy or portly. Or a chubster, a chunker, a butterball… Just don't call it late to...