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Upcoming Events

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Please contact me if you would like to arrange a FREE author visit, lecture, talk, or book reading either in person or virtually. I am especially happy to visit classrooms & libraries.

UPCOMING EVENTS


May 3rd 10am - 7pm
California Honey Festival
Woodland, CA
This free, fun, family-friendly event has something for everyone. Enjoy the honey tastings, cooking demonstrations (using honey of course), live music, and variety of food vendors including me! 
April 26th 10am - 4pm
UC Riverside Insect Fair
Free, family-friendly event that aims to bring science into your hands and hearts! The goals are to share and promote current research being done in the UC Riverside Entomology department and to bring STEM and science education to the Riverside community. Lots of hands on activities and vendors like me and Wild Sisters Book Co.
February 8th 9am - 4pm
UC Davis Biodiversity Day
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Free event (with free parking) to science out with all the museums on campus, which will be open to the public and hosting a variety of events. I will be volunteering at the Bohart Museum of Entomology naturally.
February 6th
SCHOOL VISIT
Northridge Elementary, Fair Oaks​

PREVIOUS EVENTS

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2025 January 29
SCHOOL VISIT
Sierra Elementary School, Placerville, CA

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2025 January 22 & 29
'PLEASE DON'T BITE ME!' SEMINAR PART II
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UC Davis
Everyone has been bitten by a mosquito but how much do you actually know about these insects? In this short course you will learn why mosquitoes feed on blood, how they find their hosts, and the various strategies they use to go undetected. 

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2024 December 18
SCHOOL VISIT
California Middle School, Sacramento, CA

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2024 October 2
EDUCATOR NIGHT
​Wild Sisters Book Co.
3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816
​Free event for children's book authors to meet and engage with educators

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2024 September 8th
BUGGY STORY TIME
​Face in a Book : Bookstore and Gifts
4359 Town Center Blvd, #113, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2024 July 28th
​​BUGGY STORY TIME

Once Upon A Time
2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2024 July 27th
​​BUGGY STORY TIME
Village Well Bookshop
9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA  90232
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2024 July 13
BUGS & BOOKS

Sacramento Southgate Library
6132 66th Ave, Sacramento, CA 95823
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2024 May 18 & 19
BUGFEST @ the Natural History Museum of Los Angelos
Festival celebrating our winged, multi-legged, and squirmy friends! Visit a variety of exhibitors and see everything from exotic insect collections to amazing bug-related products. Experience up-close encounters with crawly creatures, learn all about insects and their unique adaptations for survival, get hands-on and crafty, and so much more! This event must be seen to be BEE-lieved

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2024 April 28th
​BUGGY STORY TIME 
Wild Sisters Book Co.
3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816
​Free, family friendly, story time with a book reading by me and petting insects from the Bohart Museum.

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2024 April 26
SCHOOL VISIT
Leonardo da Vinci School, Sacramento, CA

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2024 April 17
GIRL SCOUT TROOP VISIT
Sacramento, CA

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2024 April 16 & 23 
'PLEASE DON'T BITE ME!' SEMINAR
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UC Davis
Everyone has been bitten by a mosquito but how much do you actually know about these insects? In this short course you will learn why mosquitoes feed on blood, how they find their hosts, and the various strategies they use to go undetected. 

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2024 March 26
CAMP VISIT (not open to the public)
North Highlands Recreation and Park District Spring Break Camp 'Bugs & Botanicals'

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2024 March 9
BOOK SIGNING
Ruby's Books
724 Sutter Street, Folsom CA 95630
​Free, family friendly, event with book reading and petting insects from the Bohart Museum

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2024 February 24
BOOK SIGNING
​Avid Reader Bookstore
617 2nd St, Davis, CA 95616
​Free, family friendly, event with book reading and petting insects from the Bohart Museum

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2024 February 21
SCHOOL VISIT (not open to the public)
2nd grade classrooms of  Sacramento City Unified School District

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2024 January 20
SOCIAL WASPS 

Bohart Museum of Entomology
UC Davis, Academic Surge, room 1124, 455 Crocker Ln, Davis, CA
Free, family friendly, event focused on wasps, with petting insects and kid-friendly activities.

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2024 January 4
​BOOK SIGNING
Wild Sisters Book Co.
3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816
​Free, family friendly, story time with a book reading by me and petting insects from the Bohart Museum.

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2023 December 4th
AUTHOR SCHOOL VISIT (not open to public)
Patwin Elementary 2nd grade 
2222 Shasta Dr, Davis, CA 95616

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2023 November 18th
​BUGGY STORY TIME 

Wild Sisters Book Co.
3325 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816
​Free, family friendly, story time with a book reading by me and petting insects from the Bohart Museum.

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2023 October 15th
BOOZY BUGGY BOOKFAIR
King Cong Brewing & Wild Sisters Book Co.
1709 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815
A fun night of beers, bugs and a pop-up bookstore, open to all ages

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2023 October 14
​FALL FESTIVAL

Wild Sisters Book Co.
3960 60th St   Sacramento CA
​Free, family friendly, with music, story times and a book reading and petting insects from the Bohart Museum.

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2023 October 12
SCHOOL VISIT
St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School
Sacramento, CA

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2023 September 23
BOOK SIGNING
​Avid Reader Bookstore

617 2nd St, Davis, CA 95616
​Free, family friendly, event with book reading and petting insects from the Bohart Museum

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2023 July 29
BUGS & BOOKS
South Davis Montgomery Branch Library

1441 Danbury St., Davis, CA 95618
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2023 July 29
BUGS & BOOKS

Arthur F. Turner Community Library - West Sacramento
1212 Merkley Avenue, West Sacramento, CA 95691
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2023 July 27
BOOK SIGNING

Pleasant Pheasant Bookstore
1059 Court St, Suite #109, Woodland, CA
Free, family friendly, event with book reading and insects from the Bohart Museum

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2023 ​July 22
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
   
Bohart Museum of Entomology
UC Davis, Academic Surge, room 1124, 455 Crocker Ln, Davis, CA
Free, family friendly, event with cookies, hot chocolate, and insects

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2023 July 12
BUGS & BOOKS

Mary L. Stephens - Davis Branch Library
315 E. 14th Street, Davis, CA 95616
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2023 July 12
BUGS & BOOKS

Clarksburg Branch Library
52915 Netherlands Ave, Clarksburg, CA 95612
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2023 July 9
BUGGY BOOZY BOOKFAIR

Jackrabbit Brewing Co. & Wild Sisters Book Co.
1323 Terminal St. West Sacramento, CA
A fun night of beers, books & bugs for all ages

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2023 July 6
BUGS & BOOKS

Winters Community Library
708 Railroad Avenue, Winters, CA 95694
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.

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2023 July 5
BUGS & BOOKS
Esparto Regional Library

17065 Yolo Avenue, Esparto, CA 95627
Free, family friendly, event with insects from the Bohart Museum and book reading.
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