Project Grant 20246701342316
- This $654,761 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant awarded to the Chicago Horticultural Society's Chicago Botanic Garden division will investigate how bee populations respond to rapid environmental changes. The researchers will use in-situ temperature manipulations and cross-population comparisons to measure the direct and indirect effects of climate change, including impacts mediated through changes in food resources and nest parasites, on vital...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Adaptive Science program (CFDA 15.670) provides $312,817 to Oregon State University to assess the impacts of widespread threats to native pollinators, particularly bees, within the sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. The project aims to quantify how bee communities respond to threats such as wildfire and invasive annual grasses, generating foundational knowledge to inform landscape-scale management decisions for improving...
- This $1,120,270 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support research into the social and ecological drivers of life history evolution in wild bees. Principal investigator Utah State University will conduct three sets of experiments to investigate how wild bees allocate resources between immunity, reproduction, and longevity as a function of variation in their social and ecological environments. The research aims to determine...
- This $493,641 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund the Partnership for Pollinator Friendly Lawns in the Southeastern United States. Led by Mississippi State University with subawards to the University of Georgia Research Foundation and Auburn University, this multi-disciplinary project aims to develop best management practices and stakeholder training programs to...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $500,000 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation for a three-year project (November 1, 2025 – October 31, 2028) investigating how honey bees integrate daylength and temperature cues to maintain behavioral synchronization with their environment. The project will deliver research outputs including behavioral tracking data,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $710,624 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective January 1, 2026 through May 14, 2028. The award supports research to evaluate nutritional optima for pollen protein-to-lipid (P:L) ratios across multiple bumble bee species in the United States and assess how these preferences...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program provides $147,013 to North Carolina State University (NC State) to conduct climate change vulnerability assessments for at-risk insect pollinator species in the Southeastern U.S. and U.S. Caribbean. The key activities include: 1) convening an advisory committee of state, territory, and tribal partners to identify priority pollinator...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Agrilife Research received a $1.0 million Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), awarded January 1, 2026, with completion targeted for December 31, 2030. The project addresses critical challenges in honey bee reproductive health and colony sustainability by conducting integrated research examining how environmental factors affect...
- This $1,791,864 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to understand how landscape context and configuration interact with on-farm practices to shape pollinator supply, and how social, institutional, and environmental factors influence farmers' ability and interest in collective action to address pollinator declines. The research will be conducted by Cornell University, with sub-awards to the Centre for...
** AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** MANY FACTORS AFFECT THE STABILITY OF WILD BEE POPULATIONS, INCLUDING LAND-USE CHANGE AND COMPETITION WITH NON-NATIVE SPECIES, SUCH AS HONEYBEES. WILD BEES ARE OFTEN EQUAL OR SUPERIOR TO MANAGED HONEYBEES IN THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE POLLINATION SERVICES, YET MANY HOBBYISTS, PRODUCERS, AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ADVOCATE FOR 'BACKYARD BEEKEEPING' AND SUPPLEMENTATION OF POLLINATION IN BOTH NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS WITH HONEYBEES. THIS MAY HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IF HONEYBEES COMPETE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WITH WILD BEE POPULATIONS FOR ACCESS TO LIMITING POLLEN RESOURCES. CURRENTLY, THERE EXIST NO CLEAR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING HONEYBEE HIVE DENSITY IN LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAN WEST. IN ADDITION, SUPPLEMENTATION WITH HONEYBEES MAY BE INEFFICIENT FOR PRODUCERS IF FEES ARE PAID FOR HIVE DEPLOYMENT WHEN WILD BEE POPULATIONS PROVIDE ADEQUATE POLLINATION SERVICES. ACCORDINGLY, THERE IS A NEED TO UNDERSTAND (1) THE EXTENT AND STRENGTH OF RESOURCE OVERLAP AND COMPETITION BETWEEN WILD BEE POPULATIONS AND MANAGED HONEYBEES, (2) DETERMINE WHETHER HONEYBEES AFFECT NEST-SITE USE AND REPRODUCTION OF WILD BEES, AND (3) QUANTIFY THE RELATIVE EFFICACY OF WILD BEES IN PROVIDING POLLINATION TO CROPS. WE PROPOSE HERE A SET OF EXPERIMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WILD BEES AND HONEYBEES, INTERPRETING INTERACTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF LANDSCAPE VARIATION, WITH THE GOAL OF PROVIDING NEW INFORMATION ON WHICH WILD BEE TAXA ARE LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED BY HONEYBEES, AND WHY. OUR RESEARCH WILL APPLY FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN INSECT ECOLOGY TO DETERMINE WHETHER HONEYBEES HAVE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS ON WILD BEE FORAGING AND VITAL RATES IN A PERI-URBAN LANDSCAPE WITH A RAPIDLY GROWING WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE. RESULTING DATASETS AND EXTENSION PRODUCTS WILL INFORM FUTURE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON HONEYBEE STOCKING DENSITIES IN THE WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE, AND CAN ALSO HELP GROWERS TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT FACTORS AFFECTING THE POLLINATION OF SEVERAL REGIONALLY IMPORTANT FIELD CROPS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $742.2k | 5/3/24 |