Cooperative Agreement 5880425089F0

This $100,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) supports the Ramsey Research Foundation's work to collect and study honey bee pests from the Tropilaelaps genus. The project aims to address gaps in knowledge that prevent effective emergency response planning for pest incursions in the U.S. by determining how to better detect...

This cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide $219,718 to the University of Maryland, College Park through April 30, 2023. The funding supports survey, sampling, and diagnostic analysis to examine the relationship between in-colony wax varroacide residues and varroa mite resistance. Specifically, the University will utilize the USDA's existing honey bee health surveillance program to collect beeswax and varroa mites...

This $241,419 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the protective symbiosis mechanism of honey bees at the University of Michigan from October 2022 to October 2023. The goal is to characterize how a bacterial symbiont protects honey bee brood from fungal pathogens by investigating its antifungal properties. Researchers will use microbiology, genetics, genomics, chemistry and bee rearing to determine how the trait evolved and identify the antifungal metabolite...

The Bee Informed Partnership, Inc. will receive a $142,676 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). Through this funding, the Bee Informed Partnership will determine the composition, diversity, and recombination rates of deformed wing virus variants in honey bee and Varroa mite populations across U.S. commercial...

This three-year $240,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research investigating host-pathogen dynamics in response to resource pulses in bees. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program of the NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure to study how mass blooming cover crops and surrounding landscape floral resources impact bee disease resistance, pathogen infection, and transmission. Specifically, the fellow will examine how resource pulses from vetch crops...

This $248,718 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), supports research on biological control methods for invasive insects threatening forests and landscapes. Specifically, the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office will: 1) Conduct host specificity testing of parasitoids for the control of the Spotted Lanternfly;...

This cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $602,652 to Bioprodex, Inc. to gather data for the registration of Verticillium nonalfalfae as a bioherbicide to control tree-of-heaven weed (Ailanthus altissima), a key host plant for the regulated pest spotted lanternfly. The award period is from May 1, 2022 through October 31, 2023. The work supports the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $261,293 cooperative agreement to Bioprodex, Inc. from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The award will support Bioprodex's efforts to register the fungus Verticillium nonalfalfae for control of tree-of-heaven, an invasive plant species. By registering this biological control agent, the agreement aims to provide...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research received a $718,938 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective December 15, 2025, through December 14, 2028. The project addresses unsustainable losses in managed honey bee colonies by developing novel anti-Varroa mite technologies that inhibit mite feeding and pathogen transmission....

This cooperative agreement from the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $212,104 to the University of Rhode Island from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The award will support rearing non-target species to be used for host range testing of two potential biological control agents for the spotted lanternfly: the egg parasitoid Anastatus orientalis...