Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

The results are in for a pair of UC Davis insect-spotting contests. The winners of the 5th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum of ...

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 Entomology sponsors the sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble ...

Bumble bee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, and a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took from UC Davis distinguished Emeritus Professor Robbin Thorp in 1998, is the ...

There’s a new way to be a pollinator protector in Oregon: Buy a bee-themed license plate to bring attention to beneficial insects and support Oregon State University Extension research on native bees.