Posts Tagged: Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest
Two Insect Contests: One Winner, One to Go
One down, one to go! We have a winner in the 4th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial...
The search is on to collect the first cabbage white butterfly of the year in the three-county area of Yolo, Sacramento and Solano. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Arboretum Is the Magical Place to Find the First-of-the-Year Bumble Bee
If history repeats itself, the person who finds and photographs the first bumble bee of the year in...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, forages on Eryngium amethystinum, a genus that belongs to the carrot family, Apiaceae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, nectaring on ceanothus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who Will Spot and Photograph the First Bumble Bee of the Year?
Who will spot and photograph the first bumble bee of the year in the two-county area of...
A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, foraging on a rose in Benicia, Solano County, on Jan. 25, 2020. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on lavender in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Who Will Win the Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest?
Wanted: the first bumble bee of the year in the two-county area of Yolo and Solano. The third...
Maureen Page, then a doctoral candidate in entomology, co-won the Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest with this image: a black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, photographed in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.
Ellen Zagory captured this image of a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden to co-win the 2022 Robbin Thorp Memorial Bumble Bee Contest.
UC Davis Postdoctoral Researcher Charlie Nicholson Wins Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest
A UC Davis postdoctoral researcher who studied with global bumble bee authority Robbin Thorp is...
In this 2015 Bee Course class photo, Charlie Nicholson (top, far left) holds the sign. In the second row, far left, is co-instructor Robbin Thorp, UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor of entomology. Nicholson is the winner of the inaugural Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo courtesy of The Bee Course)
The Bee Course instructors in 2013 included (from left) Laurence Packer, York University, Toronto; Terry Griswold, USDA Bee Lab, Logan, Utah; Steve Buchmann, Tucson, Ariz.; Robbin Thorp, UC Davis, John Ascher, University of Singapore; Jim Cane, USDA Bee Lab, Logan, Utah; and Eli Wyman, American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. Not pictured course leader Jerome Rozen, American Museum of Natural History. (Photo courtesy of The Bee Course)
This is the site in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, near Old Davis Road, where UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Charlie Nicholson spotted and photographed a bumble bee nectaring on manzanita. (Photo by Charlie Nicholson)