Awarded Grants
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Developing Public School Curricula and Training High School Students and Teachers as Ambassadors for Pollinator Protection

Impact of Prairie on Reducing Interacting Stressors on Pollinator Health

The Effect of Farm Management and Floral Foraging Traits on Exposure of Crop Pollinators to The Multiple Interacting Stressors of Pesticides, Parasites and Inadequate Nutrition

Effects of Multiple Stressors on Pollinator Health in the Southern Plains

Neglected honey bee interactions: neonicotinoids, Varroa destructor, and Best Management

Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Bumble Bee and Monarch Habitat

The Queen Exposome And Its Influence on Downstream Colony Disease Response

Pollinator Health Extension and Metrics in the Pacific Northwest

Invasive Weeds, Fire, and Livestock Grazing – Understanding the Impact of Interacting Stressors on Native Pollinator Health in Range and Pasturelands

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The Impact of Nutrition and Metabolic Capacity on Honeybee Health

A Pipeline for Streamlined Development and Testing of Novel Controls for the Honey Bee Parasitic Mite Varroa Destructor

Developing Tools for Selection and Management of Landscapes to Promote Healthy Bee Populations

Lawns-to-Wildflowers: A Citizen Science Movement for Pollinator Health

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A Pipeline for Streamlined Development and Testing of Novel Controls for the Honey Bee Parasitic Mite Varroa Destructor

Year Awarded  2018

FFAR award amount   $475,559

Total award amount   $1,138,711

Location   Beltsville, MD

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   Michael De Jong, Auburn University, Blue Ridge Honey Co., Geezer Ridge Farm, Project Apis, University of Georgia, Universitat de Valencia, Board of Regents for the University of Nebraska Department of Entomology

Varroa mite is a parasite that attacks honey bees, damages colonies and has become resistant to many commercially available chemical control agents. The US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service researchers are identifying and testing new ways to control varroa mites.

Bioindicators for A Sustainable Future: Dancing Honey Bees Communicate Habitats’ Ability to Feed Pollinators

Year Awarded  2018

FFAR award amount   $614,067

Total award amount   $1,228,134

Location   Blacksburg, VA

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   Virginia Tech

To protect honeybees, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University researchers are examining pollinator behavior in different landscapes to determine where and when supplemental forage is most needed to nourish pollinator populations. The research team is also exploring whether honey bee recruitment behavior, which is how a worker tells her nestmates where she collected food, is a reliable indicator of a viable habitat for native pollinators.

Developing Tools for Selection and Management of Landscapes to Promote Healthy Bee Populations

Year Awarded  2018

FFAR award amount   $1,177,137

Total award amount   $2,404,188

Location   University Park, PA

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   Pennsylvania State University, University of California (UC), Davis Department of Entomology, Almond Board of California, Hedgerow Farms, UC Davis Student Research Farm, UC Davis Saratoga Research Endowment, IF LLC, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sola Bee Farms, Henry’s Bullfrog Bees, Steve Godlin, Regents of the University of Minnesota, Dickinson College

Pennsylvania State University researchers are developing an online decision-support tools to help beekeepers, growers, plant producers, conservationists, land managers and gardeners assess the ability of their landscapes to support healthy wild and managed bee populations, and obtain recommendations for improving these landscapes.

Lawns-to-Wildflowers: A Citizen Science Movement for Pollinator Health

Year Awarded  2018

FFAR award amount   $338,613

Total award amount   $677,230

Location   Orlando, FL

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   University of Manitoba, University of Central Florida Board of Trustees

University of Central Florida researchers are helping citizens convert their lawns into native wildflowers and collect data on pollinator abundance and diversity using a mobile app.

Invasive Weeds, Fire, and Livestock Grazing – Understanding the Impact of Interacting Stressors on Native Pollinator Health in Range and Pasturelands

Year Awarded  2018

FFAR award amount   $321,127

Total award amount   $643,447

Location   Corvallis, OR

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   Oregon State University, The Nature Conservancy

Oregon State University researchers are examining how livestock grazing, invasive species and fires used to control those invasions influence native bee health.

Investing in our future: training taxonomists and wild bee conservation

Year Awarded  2017

FFAR award amount   $546,511

Total award amount   $1,093,084

Location   Durham, NH

Program   Pollinator Health Fund

Matching Funders   Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, UNH and UNH, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture

The University of New Hampshire researchers are creating the first comprehensive guide to wild bees found in New England. The project is classifying wild New England bees and developing resources to further education, including information on regionally specific planting recommendations and a bee identification course applicable to researchers in multiple states.