Posts Tagged: bumble bee contest
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)
No Cabbage White Butterfly, No Bumble Bee
No cabbage white butterfly, no bumble bee. As of 4 p.m. today (Jan. 6), the two UC Davis...
A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, in flight, heading toward lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on Italian Italian bugloss, Anchusa azurea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, heading for a jade blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a Tie: Two Scientists Co-Win the Second Annual Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest
(This contest was featured Jan. 3 on Good Day, Sacramento. See it here.)Game over. The...
Ellen Zagory captured this image of a bumble bee at 2:30 p.m., Jan. 1 in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden to co-win the contest. Professor Neal Williams, pollinator ecologist, identified it as a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii.
Maureen Page used her Iphone to capture this image of a black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, at 2:30 p.m., Jan. 1 in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden to co-win the contest.
Robbin Thorp, 1933-2019, at his computer with his image of Franklin's bumble bee that he closely monitored. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wanted: The First Bumble Bee of the Year in Yolo or Solano Counties
Wanted: the first bumble bee of the year in Yolo or Solano Counties! If you're the first...
This image of a black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, was taken in Benicia on Jan. 25, 2020. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bombus Back in Benicia
How many different bumble bee species have you seen or photographed this year? Have you seen the...
Bombus melanopygus, the black-tailed bumble bee, nectaring on a rose in Benicia, Solano County, on Jan. 25. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Come on in, the pollen is fine! Bombus melanopygus, the black-tailed bumble bee, nectaring on a rose in Benicia on Jan. 25. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bombus melanopygus, the black-tailed bumble bee, nectaring on a rosemary in Benicia, Solano County, on Jan. 25. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bombus melanopygus, the black-tailed bumble bee, can't get enough of this rosemary in Benicia, Solano County, on Jan. 25. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)