USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center
USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center supports the inventory, monitoring, and natural history of the wild bees of the nation in collaboration with federal, state, academic, non-profit, citizen and international groups.
News
It’s Pollinator Week!
It’s Pollinator Week!
Patuxent Scientist interviewed by Daily Emerald
Patuxent Scientist interviewed by Daily Emerald
How the Bees You Know are Killing the Bees You Don’t
How the Bees You Know are Killing the Bees You Don’t
Publications
Exotic plant infestation is associated with decreased modularity and increased numbers of connectors in mixed-grass prairie pollination networks
The majority of pollinating insects are generalists whose lifetimes overlap flowering periods of many potentially suitable plant species. Such generality is instrumental in allowing exotic plant species to invade pollination networks. The particulars of how existing networks change in response to an invasive plant over the course of its phenology are not well characterized, but may shed...
Bees: An up-close look at pollinators around the world
While we eat, work, and sleep, bees are busy around the world. More than 20,000 species are in constant motion! They pollinate plants of all types and keep our natural world intact. In Bees, you'll find a new way to appreciate these tiny wonders. Sam Droege and Laurence Packer present more than 100 of the most eye-catching bees from around the world as you've never seen them: up-close...
Pollinators in peril? A multipark approach to evaluating bee communities in habitats vulnerable to effects from climate change
In 2010, collaborators from the National Park Service (Ann Rodman, Yellowstone National Park), USGS (Sam Droege and Ralph Grundel), and Harvard University (Jessica Rykken) were awarded funding from the NPS Climate Change Response Program to launch just such an investigation in almost 50 units of the National Park System (fig. 1). The main objectives of this multiyear project were to...