USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga
We're pleased to announce we have a winner for the UT Spring Bee Competition! The winner is Caroline Chessher ('22) who collected a male Osmia on Mountain Laurel flowers on campus at 1:27pm, February 13th. She will win a free wall poster: “Back Yard Bees of North America”!
The Entomology Collection holds a yearly...
Photo: Paige Durant
The UT Spring Bee Competition has a winner! Paige Durant (class of '22) takes the prize of a pre-made Osmia mason bee house. Launched in January of this year, the contest rules are that anyone in the UT College of Natural Science community (staff, students, faculty) be the first to submit a 2022 photo of a Travis County mason...
USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga
The winner of this year's contest is Paige Durant! Click here to learn how she found this season's bees.
Bring us the first Travis County mason bee of 2022, you’ll win a native Osmia bee house!
Rationale: One measure of our changing climate is the shifting dates of emergence of our earliest spring flowers and in...
USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga
We have a winner! Katie Elston is the winner of the UT Spring Bee competition.
This competition was for submitting the first Travis County mason bee of 2021 to win a copy of the book “The Bees In Your Backyard”!
Rationale: One measure of our changing climate is the shifting dates of emergence of our earliest spri...