Posts Tagged: Gary Zamzow
Celebrating the New Year with Bumble Bees in Benicia
While folks from Alaska to Colorado to New York to Maine are shivering in freezing temperatures,...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, forages on New Year's Day, 2017, on jade at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check out the cream-colored pollen on this yellow-faced bumble bees, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring today (Jan. 1) on jade at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bottoms up! A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, dips for nectar on a jade blossom in Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The First Bumble Bee of the Year!
Remember that recently concluded contest to find the first butterfly of the year? Arthur Shapiro,...
A male three-banded bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, on manzanita on Jan. 27 in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Close-up of a male three-banded bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, on manzanita on Jan. 27 in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Got 'em!
"Got 'em!" That's the message we've all been waiting for. Several of us bumble bee...
Bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, foraging in manzanita on Feb. 12. (Photo by Allan Jones)
Bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, takes flight over a manzanita on Feb. 12. (Photo by Allan Jones)
An early Bombus sighting! Photographer Allan Jones of Davis grabbed this shot of a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, in manzanitas on Feb. 12. (Photo by Allan Jones)
The Amazing World of Bumble Bees
DAVIS--“Everybody likes bumble bees. As colorful and familiar visitors to flowers, these...
Robbin Thorp is a co-author of "Bumble Bee of North America." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp points out a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This photo of lupine at Bodega Head appears in the book. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This photo of Bombus melanopygus, a male, appears in the book. (Photo by Gary Zamzow)
A Pollinator with a New Name
We're almost midway through National Pollinator Week! It's a week that we should celebrate...
A female bumble bee, Bombus fervidus, heads for a purple coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bombus fervidus atop the purple coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)