ALT UC Davis doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski, Rachel Vannette lab

ALT Nest of yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii

ALT Crowd of 1000s of UAW members holding picket signs in Red Square

ALT Crowd of UAW members holding picket signs in front of Gerberding Building

ALT Large crowd of UAW members holding picket signs on Red Square

ALT About 15 UAW members with picket signs sitting along a stairwell

ALT Doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen of Rachel Vannette lab

ALT Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, associate professor and vice chair of UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

ALT UC Davis doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen investigated the microbial communities of the solitary bee, Anthophora bomboides, a digger bee-bumble bee mimic which nests in the sand cliffs of Bodega Bay and Point Reyes. (Photo taken at Bodega Bay, Kathy Keatley Garvey)

ALT This image shows what pollen looks like with Acinetobacter, a genus of bacteria common in flowers. Many of the pollen grains are germinating and bursting. (Shawn Christensen, UC Davis)

ALT Gorgeous shiny blue metallic bee

ALT Shiny blue bee in a pine cone

ALT Image of the green nest in a pine cone with the bee hovering nearby

ALT Bee with her face in her nest