Posts Tagged: Kathy Keatley Garvey
We Have a Winner of the Yolo-Solano Bumble Bee Contest!
We have a winner of the Yolo-Solano Memorial Bumble Bee Contest! Macro insect photographer...
Photographer Allan Jones captured this image of a black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, on Jan. 6 in UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden to win the Robbin Thorp Memorial Bumble Bee Contest.
Allan Jones (left) photographs Robbin Thorp on May 22, 2012 in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee garden on Bee Biology Road operated by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Robbin Thorp Bumble Bee Memorial Contest
Where's the first bumble bee of the year in Solano and Yolo counties? It's not a $64,000 question,...
The 2017 winner: Allan Jones photographed this Bombus melanopygus on manzanita on Jan. 27 in the UC Davis Arboretum.
The 2018 winner: Kathy Keatley Garvey photographed this Bombus melanopygus on rosemary in Benicia on Jan. 1.
The 2019 winner: Kim Chacon photographed this Bombus melanopygus on manzanita on Jan. 10 in the UC Davis Arboretum.
Santa Came
Note: This is the shortest Bug Squad blog of the 2972 blogs I've written since Aug. 6, 2008. Santa...
Santa came. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Thirteen Bugs of Christmas: Revisited
Move over, "Twelve Days of Christmas." It's time to revisit the "Thirteen Bugs of...
A golden bee, a Cordovan, sipping nectar on a lavender blossom in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The varroa mite is a persistent pest of the honey bee. Here's a varroa mite on a worker bee in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A queen bee and her retinue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis/UC ANR Communicators Win ACE Awards
Insects played a key role in the recent awards announced by the international Association for...
Bohart associate and entomology student Wade Spencer (left) shows Chancellor Gary May and Dean Helene Dillard a stick insect from the Bohart Museum of Entomology's petting zoo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of a honey bee covered with mustard pollen won a silver award in the ACE competition. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)