Posts Tagged: Bombus melanopygus.
Fairfield Resident Wins Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest
Fairfield resident Nancy Hansen won the 4th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial...
This is an image of the bumble bee species (an example here by Kathy Keatley Garvey) that Nancy Hansen found in her back yard in Fairfield on Jan. 1. She captured a video of Bombus melanopygus on her Madrone tree.
Breeze Blasts Bombus at Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay dawned cold and windy on Sunday, April 24. Windy? 27 mph! We didn't think we'd...
No wind today! A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, foraging on lavender in Vacaville, Calif., on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Alumna Wins 2023 Robbin Thorp Memorial First Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest
UC Davis alumna and pollinator enthusiast Ria de Grassi didn't have far to travel to win the Robbin...
Pollinator enthusiast Ria de Grassi of Davis won the 2023 Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest. Here she confers with Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, in this image taken in 2017 at a Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp, 1933-2019, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, talks to Ria de Grassi about an unusual carpenter bee she found in her yard in Davis, in this 2017 image taken at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ria de Grassi of Davis reads a gardening book in her pollinator garden in this 2015 image. (Photo by Katie Hetrick, then of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden)
Lynn Kimsey (left), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, presents a prized coffee cup with an image of Franklin's bumble bee to Ria de Grassi. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp Memorial Contest: Who Will Find the First Bumble Bee of the Year?
The Bohart Museum of Entomology is launching its second annual Robbin Thorp Memorial...
Where Are All the Bumble Bees?
Seen any bumble bees lately? No? Me, neither. It's almost the first day of spring, and bumble...
A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, heading for the Garvey nectarine tree on March 18, 2018 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ahh, sweet nectar! A Bombus melanopygus nectaring on a nectarine blossom on March 18, 2018 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wait, just a little more! A Bombus melanopygus nectaring on a nectarine blossom on March 18, 2018 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)