UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A $217,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program will enable Robyn Underwood, apiculture educator with Penn State Extension, to develop an extension program on honey bee queen rearing and artificial insemination. “Honey bees are the most important managed pollinator,” Underwood said. “We need honey bees to help provide […]

ATHENS, Ga. — Thousands of Georgians came together on August 20 and 21 to count pollinator insects in their local gardens for the third annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census. Coordinated by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the Great Georgia Pollinator Census (GGPC) is designed to track the overall health of Georgia’s pollinators. Georgia citizens of all […]

MADISON, Wis. — Celebrate summer and Wisconsin’s pollinators in the upcoming issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine available now. The Summer issue explores how the sound of a single bee, identified by a field ecologist, led to an exciting discovery late last summer in Milwaukee County: a nest of the rare rusty patched bumblebee. The Wisconsin Department […]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — More than one-quarter (28%) of North American bumble bees are facing some degree of extinction risk. This population decline is due to threats including habitat loss, use of pesticides, disease, and climate change. The bumble bee is just one of the many species of bees in decline around the country. The decline […]