Posts Tagged: contest
Who Won the 2024 Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest?
Drum roll…. We have a winner in the annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest, in which the...
The cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, is white with small black dots on its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A cabbage white butterfly nectaring on a catmint in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A statistics chart of the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly, a work created by Matthew Forister of the University of Nevada. He collaborates with his former professor, Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus.
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.
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)
Bohart Museum Collaborating with Art Shapiro's 'Beer-for-a-Butterfly' Contest
Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus, Department of Evolution and...
Art Shapiro spotted two cabbage white butterflies on Feb. 8, 2023 in West Sacramento. He spotted the first one, a female, at 11:22 a.m. At 11:38, he saw a male. He recorded them but did not collect them. Note: These images aren't them. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the first-flight-of-the-year butterfly chart by UC Davis alumnus Matthew Forister, Endowed Professor in Biology, University of Nevada.