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Winning Bumble at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park

What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win...

Tabatha Yang (left), education an outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology with the contest winners Michael Kwong an Kaylen Teves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tabatha Yang (left), education an outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology with the contest winners Michael Kwong an Kaylen Teves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tabatha Yang (left), education an outreach coordinator of the Bohart Museum of Entomology with the contest winners Michael Kwong an Kaylen Teves. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Contest winners Michael Kwong and Kaylen Teves look at butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Contest winners Michael Kwong and Kaylen Teves look at butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Contest winners Michael Kwong and Kaylen Teves look at butterfly specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources

Santa and the Monarch

Santa Claus and the monarch butterfly share a commonality. Both are icons, easily recognizable. One may become extinct. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

Santa and a monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Santa and a monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Santa and a monarch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Tags: monarch (25), Santa Claus (8)
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation

A Monarch Kind of Day

What we've been waiting for all season... A migratory monarch butterfly fluttered into our Vacaville garden at noon today (Tuesday, Sept. 17)...

A female monarch nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotunifola, in a Vacaville garden at noon, Sept. 17, 2024. At left is a territorial male longhorned bee, probably Melissodes agilis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female monarch nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotunifola, in a Vacaville garden at noon, Sept. 17, 2024. At left is a territorial male longhorned bee, probably Melissodes agilis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A female monarch nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotunifola, in a Vacaville garden at noon, Sept. 17, 2024. At left is a territorial male longhorned bee, probably Melissodes agilis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The female monarch butterfly lifts off the Tithonia. This image was taken with a Nikon D500 with a 200mm macro lens. Settings: 1/4000 of a second; f-stop, 5.6; ISO 640.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The female monarch butterfly lifts off the Tithonia. This image was taken with a Nikon D500 with a 200mm macro lens. Settings: 1/4000 of a second; f-stop, 5.6; ISO 640.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The female monarch butterfly lifts off the Tithonia. This image was taken with a Nikon D500 with a 200mm macro lens. Settings: 1/4000 of a second; f-stop, 5.6; ISO 640.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The monarch descends, ready to head to another blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The monarch descends, ready to head to another blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The monarch descends, ready to head to another blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

She lifts up and away she goes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
She lifts up and away she goes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

She lifts up and away she goes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

A Halloween Surprise: A Migratory Monarch

It's beginning to look a lot like...Halloween. If you haven't noticed, stores are gearing up for Halloween with assorted ghosts, goblins and ghouls...

A migrating monarch butterfly stops on Halloween, Oct. 31 to sip nectar from a milkweed in a Vacaville garden. She was on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A migrating monarch butterfly stops on Halloween, Oct. 31 to sip nectar from a milkweed in a Vacaville garden. She was on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A migrating monarch butterfly stops on Halloween, Oct. 31 to sip nectar from a milkweed in a Vacaville garden. She was on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The female monarch spreads her wings. She stopped in Vacaville on Halloween 2023 for some flight fuel while on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The female monarch spreads her wings. She stopped in Vacaville on Halloween 2023 for some flight fuel while on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The female monarch spreads her wings. She stopped in Vacaville on Halloween 2023 for some flight fuel while on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

On Sept. 6, 2016, It Happened

On Sept. 6, 2016, it happened. A monarch fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville and touched down on a Mexican sunflower,...

This monarch, tagged and released in Ashland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2016, touched down in a Vacaville garden on Sept. 6, 2016. It flew 285 miles in 7 days or about 40.7 miles per day, according to WSU entomologist David James. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This monarch, tagged and released in Ashland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2016, touched down in a Vacaville garden on Sept. 6, 2016. It flew 285 miles in 7 days or about 40.7 miles per day, according to WSU entomologist David James. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This monarch, tagged and released in Ashland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2016, touched down in a Vacaville garden on Sept. 6, 2016. It flew 285 miles in 7 days or about 40.7 miles per day, according to WSU entomologist David James. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Friday, September 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

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