IPM4Bees Midwest
Project Director: Randall Cass — Iowa State University
Across the United States, beekeepers of all sizes (commercial, sideline, and backyard) experience annual colony losses at higher rates than previous decades. For many beekeepers, colony losses will result in reduced income from honey production and, more significantly, pollination services. The scientific community understands higher rates of colony loss are the result of four major honey bee stressors: pests and disease, loss of habitat/poor forage availability, pesticide exposure, and negative effects that result from multiple stressors working synergistically.
The goal of continuing the IPM4Bees Working Group is to foster learning, collaboration, and information/resource sharing among researchers, extension professionals, and other stakeholders that work in honey bees, native bees, and bee-related IPM. The primary areas of focus are pollinator-friendly agricultural IPM practices and IPM for honey bee pests
- 2019 Entomological Society of America symposium: Monitoring, Mitigation, and Miticide: What IPM Strategies Improve Honey Bee and Native Bee Health?
- Two-day workshop at Iowa State University
- Beekeeping How-To plus Varroa Mite Check Tutorials: Extension Videos
- Virtual Seminar Series 2021
- IPM for Bees Extension Exchange Seminar held in 2022
Learn more on the IPM4Bees Working Group website.