Graphic showing maggot life-cycle
2 photos of seed corn
Maggot Chart
2 photos of Delta Flies
Beetle photos
Video lead image
Video lead image
Video lead image
Allium Leafminer Known Range
Figure 1. Jalysus wickhami. Photo © John Rosenfeld, used with permission.
Figure 2. Adult feeding on an unopened flower. Photo © 2008 Tony DiTerlizzi, used with permission.
Figures 1a-1d
Figure 1
Figures 2-4
Figures 1 & 2
Discovery Space’s Bee Hive Exhibit
Discovery Space welcomes 20,000 visitors each year
Discovery Space welcomes 20,000 visitors each year
Discovery Space welcomes 20,000 visitors each year
W. H. Bates Middle School collected trash in their community (which would have otherwise been perfect mosquito breeding habitat) and used it to build the sculpture
One of the Bug Camp Students
2018
Updated: January 2nd, 2020
Rising senior, Matthew Poorman stands next to the 18-foot prototype “Bee Hut.” The pavilion design is modelled after old skeps, which were baskets used to house honey bees before Langstroth hives.
Rising junior, Jacklyn Kiner dissecting a bumble bee microcolony. She is investigating the role of nutrition on bumble queen reproduction.
2019 APPL-Red Participants observing pollinator visitation to plants.
APPL-Red 2019 participants using microscopes to determine pollen collected from pollinators and accompanying plant.
Brooke Lawrence presents her research poster titled “Maintaining The Colony Pantry: Impact Of Pesticides On Microbiome-Mediated Pollen Preservation In Honey Bee Colonies” to participants at the 2nd Pollinator In-service Meeting. Photo by Shelby Kilpatrick.
Panel discussion on the status of pollinators and bees, including factors that stress their populations. From left to right, Margarita López-Uribe, Harland Patch, Diana Cox-Foster, Jim Cane, Scott McArt, David Biddinger, and Shelby Flesicher. Photo by Shelby Kilpatrick.
Map to the Frost Museum
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Logos
PSU Graduate students Elizabeth Rowen (right) and Liz Davidson-Lowe (left) sitting outside of the “Haunted Soils” Exhibit at the 2019 Great Insect Fair.
The “Haunted Soils” Exhibit at the 2019 Great Insect fair came with a soil-dweller search. Participants crawled through the tunnel and found soil-dwelling arthropods such as spiders, millipedes, and ant nests.
PSU Graduate students Fhallon Ware-Gilmore (left) and Mario Novelo Canto (right) heading the “Mosquito Biology” booth at the 2019 PSu Great Insect Fair. Ware-Gilmore can be seen flipping through a fact sheet on vector control that includes updated information on mosquito-vectored diseases and how to prevent them.
Inside the Haunted Soils. A 2019 PSU Great Insect Fair participant can be seen crawling through the tunnels. They are about to uncover a glow-in-the-dark collembollan and centipede.
Young Great Insect Fair participant tests whether male mosquitoes really don’t bite. Spoiler Alert: they do not.
Outside
Outside
OUTSIDE
Outside
Outside
Great Insect Fair
Mosquito Cages
Mosquito Tray
Nathan Derstine in the lab
Julie Golinski
Hannah Greenberg with Black Bear
Julie Golinski 2
Julie Golinski 3
Bed Bugs
Jonathan Hernandez
Pumpkin
Hannah with Bear 2
News story image
News Story Image
News Story Image
Cover Image for the How-to maual
Kate Anton, Penn State Univ., administering OAV to colonies in one of our Nittany Valley apiaries
This figure shows the Mountain Camp method of providing supplemental sugar before (left) and after (right) bees have fed on it.
One of the most common North American bumble bee species is actually two species
Dr. Shelby Fleischer and master’s student Carley McGrady in a pumpkin field.
López-Uribe and Hines labs
López-Uribe lab
Grozinger and Rasgon Lab
Schilder lab
Amsalem lab
Females of most bee species have specialized pollen collecting hairs on their legs or underneath their abdomen to carry pollen from flowers to their nest. The different pollen species (note the different colors) collected by these bee species likely differ in protein:lipid ratios (P:L) that they are adapted to eat. Bee species: L - Nomia amabilis collected on Rafnia elliptica; M – Megchile discolor collected on Acacia karoo and Grewia robusta; R – Amegilla aspergina collected on Morea inclanata. Photos by Anthony Vaudo
Plant family and bee species average P:L values. Circles represent plant families, and diamonds represent bee species. Note how the bee species differ in P:L values of the pollen collected. This may be because they have different nutritional preferences and therefore differentially collect pollen from locally available flowers to balance their diet.
2017 Word Cloud - Tooker Lab
2014 Word Cloud - Tooker Lab
2017 Summer Helpers in the Tooker Lab
Sticky Trap
Amanda Ramcharan
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