Stink Bug on a Blackberry
Stink Bug Peach Damage
Stink Bug feeding on a Peach
Stink Bug apple damage
Stink Bug Apple "Corking"
Stink Bug feeding on sweet corn
Stink Bug damaged sweet corn
Apple Damage
Apple Damage
Peach and Sweet Corn Damage
Chocolate covered crickets are a treat at the Insect Deli!
Tooker Lab photo
Ian in mountains
Andrew and Dog
Heidi and Dog
John
Overseeing the crazy experiment
Maggie Sets the Trap
Our friend Vaughn
Field Day "Office"
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Pollinator Certification
Pennsylvania County location map
Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology
Graduate Student
Tooker lab
Our Friend Vaughn
Allie
Fall 11 - Summer 12
Mountains
Ian & Scott
fishing
Pitfall
September 2009
Profile Photo
Profile Photo
Profile Photo
Profile Photo
Leaf damage done by the Lily Leaf Beetle
Black swallowtail caterpillar on parsley
Monarch caterpillar on Asclepias tuberosa, Aug. 2007
Plant in drifts
Bumblebee with pollen on Echinacea
Pesticides on shelf
Question mark on elm
(Left) Spicebush swallowtail caterpillar feeding on spicebush (Right) Monarch caterpillar feeding on milkweed
(Left) Spicebush swallowtail caterpillar feeding on spicebush (Right) Monarch caterpillar feeding on milkweed
Systemic pesticides can hurt pollinators feeding on contaminated leaves, nectar and pollen
Photo by Nick Sloff
Photo by Nick Sloff
Photos by Nick Sloff
Photo by Steve Jacobs
The researchers examined mosquitoes thirty days after they were infected with Wolbachia using whole mount fluorescence in situ hybridization. Wolbachia bacteria, indicated in red, are distributed throughout the mosquito. The green areas represent mosquito cell nuclei. Credit: Grant Hughes, Penn State
Oocyst -- non-infectious stage of malaria -- of Plasmodium yoelii (rodent malaria) attach to the wall of a mosquito midgut. Credit: Krijn Paaijmans, Universitat de Barcelona
Portrait of Harland Patch
Mature larva of the omnivorous leafroller
Egg mass of the omnivorous leafroller.
Foliar damage caused by the larval stage of the omnivorous leafroller
An adult female omnivorous leafroller.
Rootworm damage
Cui Lab Former Member
Cui Lab Former Member
Cui Lab Former Member
"Honey bees are exposed to hundreds of pesticides, while they are foraging on flowers and also when beekeepers apply chemicals to control bee pests," said Christina Grozinger, professor of entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research, Penn State. Credit: Daniel Schmehl, University of Florida
"Honey bees are exposed to hundreds of pesticides, while they are foraging on flowers and also when beekeepers apply chemicals to control bee pests," said Christina Grozinger, professor of entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research, Penn State. Credit: Daniel Schmehl, University of Florida
Photo by Greg Hoover
Photo by Greg Hoover
Photo by Greg Hoover
Photo by Greg Hoover
by David Mortensen & Melanie Kammerer
USDA-NIFA Programs
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Lead image for - Formal application of common sense to integrate our knowledge of bees into fruit farm management decisions
Pollinator Conservation Policy at the USDA: Taking the Farm Bill to the Farm Field
For Connie Schmotzer Article
Lead image
Male & Female
pupa
Larva
Egg on mycelia
Kirsten Pearsons (captain), Ryan Reynolds, Hilary Morin, Shelley Whitehead, Elizabeth Rowen & Karly Regan
Elizabeth Rowen (Left) & Shelley Whitehead (right)
Ken, Jen, Kyra, Dan (L to R) enjoying some gall collecting!
Fly with arrow
two images of flies
Fly with crossed hairs
Wing Detail
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
Graph
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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