What if bees disappeared?
5/16/19
In the United States, honey bees and wild bees contribute $20 billion each to agriculture and industries that depend on agriculture, meaning that fewer bees could lead to smaller harvests and increased food prices.
Center for Pollinator Research
Center for Pollinator Research
Protecting pollinators: Penn Staters working to reverse bee population declines
5/14/19
Within the past decade, beekeepers across the globe have observed massive declines in managed honey bee populations. Given their critical role in the nation’s agricultural industry, Penn State’s Christina Grozinger and the Center for Pollinator Research are implementing creative approaches to protecting bee populations in Pennsylvania and beyond.
Introducing Beescape: A new online tool and community to support bees
4/1/19
Beescape.org provides a tool for beekeepers, gardeners, growers and land managers to assess the quality of their landscapes for supporting managed honey bees and wild bees. It was developed through a partnership led by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Center for Pollinator Research and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
Class Gift Campaign celebrates an 'Evening of New BEEginnings'
3/25/19
The 2019 Class Gift Campaign hosted students, faculty and University community members on March 22 at the Hintz Family Alumni Center for an evening of learning and celebration of the 2019 class gift to the University: an Entry Gate to the Pollinators’ Garden at the Arboretum at Penn State.
Penn State earns 'Bee Campus USA' certification
12/3/18
Penn State has become the 55th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strength of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.
Penn State Beekeepers Club fosters importance of honey bees
10/11/18
The Penn State Beekeepers Club, which was founded in 2013, brings together beekeeping enthusiasts and those who simply are interested in learning about and sharing the beekeeping hobby.
Entomology professors honored by Entomological Society of America
9/13/18
Two professors in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have been lauded for their significant contributions to the field of entomology by the Entomological Society of America.
Pollinator Panic: Interdisciplinary team creates pollinator education video game
7/26/18
A collaboration between the School of Visual Arts and the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State has led to the creation of “Pollinator Panic!,” an online strategy game that allows a player to assume the role of a field researcher who is working to restore a bee community.
Scientists find evidence of 27 new viruses in bees
6/21/18
An international team of researchers has discovered evidence of 27 previously unknown viruses in bees. The finding could help scientists design strategies to prevent the spread of viral pathogens among these important pollinators.
$2.1 million enables creation of decision-support tools for pollinator health
3/27/18
The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Davis; the University of Minnesota; and Dickinson College will receive more than $2 million from the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research and the United States Department of Agriculture to translate basic research into online decision support tools to help beekeepers and land managers maintain and expand populations of managed and wild bees.
Land-grant ag research and education highlighted during visit by USDA Secretary
1/24/18
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue paid a visit to Penn State's University Park campus on Jan. 24 as part of a tour through Pennsylvania to unveil the Department of Agriculture's legislative principles as Congress prepares to enact a new five-year farm bill.
Graduate training program in pollinator ecology gets a boost with USDA grant
10/4/17
A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will enhance an innovative Penn State graduate training program in entomology and ecology aimed at helping to solve the multifaceted problem of pollinator decline.
Ag Department, Penn State seek public input on state Pollinator Protection Plan
9/28/17
Farmers, gardeners and other Pennsylvanians concerned about the health of pollinators — given their critically important role in growing and producing food — now have the chance to comment on a draft of the state’s proposed Pollinator Protection Plan. The plan, developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State, is designed to protect bees and other insects that pollinate nearly 75 percent of the Commonwealth’s food crops.
Altoona professor leads group in maintaining the right-of-way in the right way
8/17/17
A group of faculty, students, energy providers, and vegetation-management companies are looking at how to best maintain right-of-ways under utilities to protect those utilities and promote wildlife at the same time.
Undergraduate researcher uses honeybees to probe society’s gender roles
9/20/16
What do traditional gender roles of women have in common with the non-visible labor of honeybees? Through a research project supported by an Apes Valentes Undergraduate Research Award, Christina Dietz found that, in both subjects, the value of labor is lessened based on the lack of visibility it receives.