Posts Tagged: bumble bee

Blooms and Bombus in Benicia

There she was, a beautiful yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging Feb. 27 on African trailing daisies, Osteospermum...

A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's Who Won the Bohart Bumble Bee Contest!

So, you're sitting in your backyard, enjoying some sunshine (sun break!) on the first day of the year, and you hear a bumble bee buzzing in your...

Here's a close-up of what this bumble bee species, Bombus melanopygus, looks like. (Photo taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's a close-up of what this bumble bee species, Bombus melanopygus, looks like. (Photo taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a screen shot from the video taken by Nancy Hansen of Fairfield of the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus.

This is a screen shot from the video taken by Nancy Hansen of Fairfield of the black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus.

Two Insect Contests: One Winner, One to Go

One down, one to go! We have a winner in the 4th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest, sponsored by the...

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)

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 the two-county area of Yolo and...

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 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)

A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, nectaring on ceanothus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bumble Bees and Tithonia: Perfect Match

A perfect match: a bumble bee foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Lately we've been observing a bumble bee, identified as a...

A bumble bee, identified as a male Bombus californicus, foraging on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A bumble bee, identified as a male Bombus californicus, foraging on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male California bumble bee, Bombus californicus, peeks through the flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A male California bumble bee, Bombus californicus, peeks through the flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Over here is better. A male Bombus californicus foraging on a Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Over here is better. A male Bombus californicus foraging on a Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The male California bumble bee, Bombus californicus, takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The male California bumble bee, Bombus californicus, takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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