Who will find and photograph the first bumble bee of the year in Yolo and Solano counties and win the fifth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest? In 2024, Fairfield resident Nancy Hansen won the contest with a video of B. melanopygus that she emailed to the Bohart Museum at 10:57 a.m., Monday, Jan. 1. She took the video in her Madrone tree, Arbutus menziesii, in her backyard. (See video on YouTube) The Bohart Museum of Entomology sponsors the annual contest. The...
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