Virginia Tech Bee Campus

We are a committee of faculty, staff, and grad/undergrad students working towards making VT a certified Bee Campus. 🐝

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Virginia Tech earns a Bee 🐝 for it's work in pollinators, and is now a certified Bee Campus!

Learn more about our Bee Campus USA certification here 👉 https://t.co/2S0ExyVK70

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Can you bee-lieve it?! #VirginiaTech earned the Bee Campus USA certification for our commitment to sustaining native insect pollinators, a designation that further cements our commitment to creating a sustainable campus 🌼🐝 https://t.co/C3mq0Vy66M

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Happy World Bee Day!

Nathan King is Virginia Tech’s Campus Sustainability Manager. He’s serving on the Outreach subcommittee for Bee Campus VT.

Nathan’s favorite bee fact is: Did you know that bees can fly up to 20 mph and beat their wings 200 times per second?

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Leighton’s favorite bee fact is: Goldenrods are important nectar sources for pollinators in the fall. Many people mistakenly believe that goldenrods cause allergies, but they are innocent. Those allergies are caused by ragweeds that bloom at the same time.

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Happy World Bee Day!

Leighton Reid is an Assistant Professor in the Virginia Tech School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. He studies and teaches about ecological restoration of tropical forests and temperate grasslands and woodlands.

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Susan’s favorite bee fact is: Even though bees sometimes travel far away from their nest to forage, they don’t get lost! Bees memorize where their nest is by observing nearby objects and their placement as they leave.

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Happy World Bee Day!

Susan Sale is an undergraduate student studying Industrial Design. She’s an Office of Sustainability student intern and she’s serving on the Bee Campus VT subcommittee for Pollinator Monitoring and Habitat Assessment.

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Maggie’s favorite bee fact is: Did you know that the plant-pollinator relationship is not always cooperative? Because it benefits both to cheat the other, the pollinator or the plant may deceive its partner.

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Happy World Bee Day!

Maggie Couvillon is an Assistant Professor of Pollinator Biology and is serving as the Chair of our VT Bee Campus committee.

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