Master Melittologist Program News Today

Most bees don’t really look like bees. In fact, the Pollinator Health Lab at Oregon State University has boxes upon boxes of specimens that look more like gnats or beetles than bees. Linc Best, director of the Pollinator Health Lab, pulls out one of these shallow boxes and opens it, uncovering lines of delicately arranged...

The COVID-19 pandemic complicated many opportunities for people, but not 17-year-old Marek Stanton for designing a new license plate for the state of Oregon. Stanton was attending Oregon State University’s melittology–the study of bees–webinar series during the pandemic when he was recommended to join the program.  What OSU didn’t realize was that Stanton was only...