WSU Honey Bees + Pollinators
Bee Friendly
Join Us in Saving the Bees
We’re partnering with Paul Stamets and Fungi Perfecti to protect honey bees and pollinators. Our renowned global research program works with beekeepers, scientists, environmentalists and communities to improve honey bee and pollinator health. This effort supports research on how fungi can help honey bees.
Together, our work will ensure the thriving pollination system critically needed for domestic and global food security.
Bee Helpful
A Global Problem
Honey bees are the single most important pollinator contributing to a healthy global food supply. Declines in insect pollinators worldwide present a challenge for food security. The WSU Honey Bee and Pollinator Research Facility will provide the means to conduct unparalleled research and outreach to create sustainable solutions to problems facing pollinators. Creation of the new state-of-the-art facility will require the financial support from people like you.
Diagnostic Lab
Breeding Program
Can mushrooms Save the Honey Bee?
Early last year, Stamets asked Washington State University entomologist Steve Sheppard to help confirm his hunches about bees and fungi. The two have since joined forces to explore the connections that, as far as they know, no one has ever made before. This unlikely pairing of entomology and mycology could lead to less toxic and more effective ways to control the diseases and pests that are implicated in winter hive losses and colony collapse disorder.