Native plants are popular with gardeners, in part due to their purported benefits to pollinators. Studies have examined the relative attractiveness of regionally relevant native plants to wild bees in other areas of the United States, but no studies were available for plants native to the Pacific Northwest. We conducted...
Urban gardens are uniquely positioned to support bee conservation. Gardens, when managed for pollinators, can provide food sources (pollen and nectar), nesting sites, and mating sites. Some bees (like sweat bees in the family Halictidae), are known to thrive in urban areas, we wanted to understand what types of bees...
“Leafcutter bee” is the nickname for bees in the family Megachilidae. Like the name suggests, some bees in this family cut portions of leaves as nesting material. Leafcutters, however, are not limited to leaves alone! Some use mud, resin, sticks, pebbles, or petals in their nest construction. Megachile montivaga (the...
Bees, like humans, have three types of photoreceptors in their compound eyes that allow them to see color. Bees see ultraviolet (UV) light, blue light, and green light, whereas most humans see red, blue, and green. We developed a methodology1 to simulate bee vision that can be used to photograph...
This guide is designed as a public tool, and an accompaniment to the online iNaturalist guide Summer Garden Bees of Portland. You can use this link to access it: https://beav.es/Tdj.
The 67 bee species included in this guide were found in a three-year study of garden bee communities active during...
The magazine of the OSU College of Forestry. FOCUS is published by Oregon State University College of Forestry to keep alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students informed about the college and its many events, activities and programs.
The magazine of the OSU College of Forestry. FOCUS is published by Oregon State University College of Forestry to keep alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students informed about the college and its many events, activities and programs.
The magazine of the OSU College of Forestry. FOCUS is published by Oregon State University College of Forestry to keep alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students informed about the college and its many events, activities and programs.
The magazine of the OSU College of Forestry. FOCUS is published by Oregon State University College of Forestry to keep alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students informed about the college and its many events, activities and programs.