A monarch-counting expedition to Glen Cove Waterfront Park, Vallejo, led to the winning entry in the 5th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum of Entomology. 

Michael Kwong of Sacramento and Kaylen Teves of Vallejo, members of the Western Monarch Count, were counting monarch butterflies on Jan. 11 at the waterfront park when they spotted a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, sunning on an oak leaf.