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Lesley Hamamoto winner of sixth annual First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest

Bumble bee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, and a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took ...
The Vacaville Reporter on MSN

Bohart Museum to sponsor annual bumble bee contest

The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of ...
ucdavis.edu

Population Decline of Franklin’s Bumble Bee Wasn’t Due to Pathogens, Museum Genomic Research Shows

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...
AZ Central

Bumble Bee, AZ: Here's how this ghost town got its name. Hint: it's not really about bugs

Bumble Bee is now a small, quiet ghost town off Interstate 17, about 50 miles southeast of Prescott. The area, however, was once a lively stage stop on a route known as "the Phoenix Road," the main ...
Phys.org

Bumble bees launch a three-stage defensive response when their nest is disturbed

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...
Mankato Free Press

Bumble bees in decline, but they're still studied

MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...