How Your Perennial Garden Can Shelter Bees

Jun 17, 2025

How Your Perennial Garden Can Shelter Bees

The hollow stems of perennials can provide native bees with winter housing or a nursery. Here’s how to get your garden move-in ready.

Jun 16, 2025

Fortifying the Future for Bees

With multiple projects focused on the behavior, health and environment of bees, researchers in the Department of Applied Ecology are dedicated to supporting the well-being of these important pollinators.

Jun 12, 2025

Big Rock Partnership Yields Big Data

For more than 20 years, the Big Rock has partnered with NC State University to ensure the prizewinning fish are processed and sent to labs around the United States for scientists to research the health of the fish and the waters in which they live.

May 15, 2025

Laney Recognized for Decades of Dedication to Wildlife Conservation

Fisheries biologist Reid Wilson Laney, fondly known by friends and colleagues as Wilson, has been a part of NC State University since he earned his master’s and subsequent Ph.D. in zoology…

Apr 25, 2025

HOST program turns concern into action for college students facing housing insecurity

Kaleb Holder, a fourth-year studying environmental science, shared how Assistant Professor Erin McKenney helped them find support through the HOST program—which works to ensure that students are safely and stably housed.

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Apr 22, 2025

Youngsteadt to Study Urban Bee Movement With Support From Kriz Endowment

With funding from the George J. and Rhoda W. Kriz Study Leave Award, applied ecology researcher Elsa Youngsteadt will travel to the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, to develop new methods to track the movements of bees in urban environments.

Apr 14, 2025

Deciphering All the Buzz About Honey Bee Loss

Extension apiculturist David Tarpy explains the factors that could be causing an unusually high loss of honey bee colonies so far this year, what that means for crop production and how we can support pollinators this summer.

Apr 4, 2025

2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium Winners Named

Nearly 200 NC State graduate students presented their research projects during the 17th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, 27 top performers awarded.

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Mar 24, 2025

Research Advances the Next Wave of Aquaculture

Researchers in the Department of Applied Ecology are using an innovative method for rearing striped bass, aiming to make aquaculture of the species more efficient.

Mar 11, 2025

Guidance for Gardeners: trimming perennial stems

Gardening practices are an important aspect of a successful pollinator garden, including winter clean-up. Applied Ecology Associate Professor Elsa Youngsteadt with colleagues from Entomology & Plant Pathology, NC State Extension and…

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