The Integrated Crop Pollination Project

A Coordinated Agricultural Project Funded by the USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative

Integrated Crop Pollination May be Key to Success with Many Michigan Crops

An international study revealing the importance of wild pollinators for production of fruits and vegetables is providing new insights that may help improve Michigan’s pollination-dependent crops… Read the full article posted by MSU Today

Plan Bee

Honeybees have been the first choice of growers across the United States to pollinate crops and improve the quality of their yields for nearly four centuries. Imported from Europe in the early years of North American colonization, honeybees became a…

Going Wild Could Improve Winged Workforce

Every spring in the United States, bees pollinate crops valued at about $14 billion. A Michigan State University professor and a team of scientists are using a five-year, $8.6 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to keep…

ICP Project at the 2015 Entomological Society of America Meeting

Entomologists are converging in Minneapolis, MN from November 15-18 for the annual Entomological Society of America Meeting. Researchers affiliated with the Integrated Crop Pollination Project are represented in 43 presentations and posters and helped organize 5 symposia and meetings. See all the…

Leah Morin November 11, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

New Guide to Bees of the Great Lakes

Project ICP researchers Dr. Jason Gibbs and Dr. Rufus Isaacs (Michigan State University) have published a new guide to the bees of the Great Lakes region and the wildflowers that support them. The pocket-sized guide is designed to help farmers and gardeners identify…

Leah Morin November 10, 2015 Project ICP Extension

Research Project Puts Priority on Pollination

The Integrated Crop Pollination Project is featured as the cover story in this month’s American Fruit Grower Magazine. Read the full article here!

Leah Morin November 2, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

Florida Melitto Files October-December Newsletter

Click here to read several articles about ICP research in Florida featuring ICP partner Cory Stanley-Stahr (UF) in the Florida Melitto Files Newsletter.

Leah Morin October 30, 2015 Project ICP Extension

Native Bees Are ‘Plan B’ In Pollination Efforts

Read about Project ICP’s pollination study efforts at the University of Florida in this news story: http://www.wuft.org/news/2015/10/14/native-bees-are-plan-b-in-pollination-efforts/

Leah Morin October 16, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

Effects of fungicide and adjuvant sprays on nesting behavior in two managed solitary bees, Osmia lignaria and Megachile rotundata

The blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria) is an alternative managed bee used by some tree fruit and nut growers around the US. A recent study by Project ICP research partners Derek Artz and Theresa Pitts-Singer found that a common fungicide…

Emily May September 23, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

Local plant diversity supports a diverse wild bee community in Pennsylvania apple orchards

Farmers with a diversity of plants on the orchard floor and orchard edge have abundant and diverse pollinator communities in their orchards, according to a recent paper co-authored by Project ICP research partner Dave Biddinger. Wild pollinators, in addition to honey…

Emily May September 21, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

Wild bees in eastern US apple orchards: Documenting species diversity and effects of pesticides

Project ICP researcher Jason Gibbs (Michigan State University) has co-authored two recent papers on wild bees in New York apple orchards, as part of his former work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Danforth lab at Cornell University. The first…

Emily May August 21, 2015 Project ICP News And Press

Visit a diversified farm with Project ICP partner, Claire Kremen!

Learn more about California’s crop pollinators in this video of Project ICP partner, Claire Kremen and NY Times journalist, Mark Bittman! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/opinion/mark-bittman-whats-the-buzz-about-wild-bees.html?_r=0