Lynn Kimsey


Lynn Kimsey is an entomologist, taxonomist, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis since 1989. Her specialties are bees and wasps; and insect diversity.
She received a doctorate in entomology from UC Davis in 1979 and joined the faculty there in 1989.
She has described almost 300 new species.
Her husband Robert Kimsey is a forensic entomologist in the UC Davis Department of Entomology.