Official Collaborative Resource Website
Oregon's gardens, agricultural lands, natural areas and forests help support and maintain about 700 species of bees.
The State of Oregon is maintaining these pollinator species vital to the food supply and the natural environment around us.
Have a question about bees? Post it to OSU Ask An Expert. Please provide as much information as possible. Photographs are helpful.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) Pesticides Program, responds to all allegations of bee kills or die-off's alleged to be pesticide related. If you suspect bees have been poisoned by pesticides contact us.
Bee Friendly Resources and Tools for
Bee Friendly Wine
An initiative to make Oregon wines the most bee friendly in the world. The project leverages the enormous Oregon Bee Atlas data on bee-plant interactions with grower initiatives to improve habitat.
Oregon Bee Atlas
The Atlas works with OSU Master Melittologists to define the bees of the state and the plants they uses. The Atlas has added thousands of new records to the state and resulted in the discovery of many bee species new to the state.