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

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

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…

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

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…

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Orchard Bee Association Annual Pollinator Symposium and Expo
Orchard Bee Association Annual Pollinator Symposium and Expo

Orchard Bee Association Annual Pollinator Symposium and Expo

People who are interested in bees and the challenges they face can learn more at the 2015 International Orchard Bee Association Meeting and Pollinator Symposium and Expo, held October 1-3. The annual meeting of the Orchard Bee Association (OBA) will…

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

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…

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