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Celebrating the New Year with Bumble Bees in Benicia

While folks from Alaska to Colorado to New York to Maine are shivering in freezing temperatures,...

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Posted on Monday, January 1, 2018 at 3:04 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Allan Jones (11), Benicia (1), Benicia Capitol State Historic Park (1), Bombus vosnesenskii (3), Gary Zamzow (6), Robbin Thorp (11), yellow-faced bumble bees (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Well, Hello, Bumble Bee...

What are the odds? Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of...

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Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 5:50 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Allan Jones (11), Bombus melanopygus (4), bumble bees (3), Robbin Thorp (11), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1)

The First Bumble Bee of the Year!

Remember that recently concluded contest to find the first butterfly of the year? Arthur Shapiro,...

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Posted on Friday, January 27, 2017 at 3:43 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Allan Jones (11), Art Shapiro (1), Bombus melanopygus (4), bumble bee (2), Gary Zamzow (6), manzanita (1), Robbin Thorp (11), UC Davis (1)

When Varroa Mites Hitch a Ride

Those blood-sucking varroa mites (Varroa destructor) are considered the No. 1 enemy of beekeepers....

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Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 4:40 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Allan Jones (11), bumble bee (2), carpenter bee (1), Eric Mussen (2), honey bee (1), Robbin Thorp (11), Varroa destructor (1), varroa mite (1)

Got 'em!

"Got 'em!" That's the message we've all been waiting for. Several of us bumble bee...

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Posted on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 6:16 PM

Comments: 1

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Allan Jones (11), Bombus melanopygus (4), Bombus vosnesenskii (3), bumble bees (3), Gary Zamzow (6), manzanitas (1), Robbin Thorp (11)

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