Robyn Underwood
Assistant Research Professor - Lopez-Uribe Lab
News Articles Featuring Robyn Underwood
Mar 05, 2025
Tiny QR codes on bees are helping Penn State researchers study foraging behavior
Organic beekeeping researchers at Penn State placed tiny QR codes on the backs of over 32,000 bees in rural Pennsylvania and New York to collect data on their foraging behavior.
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Jan 31, 2025
What is it like to be a bee? These tiny QR tracking tags helped science find out
In rural Pennsylvania and New York, researchers have attached tiny QR codes to hundreds of honey bees in an effort to track the insects’ foraging habits.
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Jan 28, 2025
Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements
New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs.
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Jan 26, 2025
Scientists Strapped QR Codes Onto Thousands of Bees to Learn How Far They Actually Fly
Entomologists and engineers in the U.S. glued tiny QR codes to the backs of tens of thousands of honey bees in rural areas of Pennsylvania and New York.
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Jan 24, 2025
Researchers glued teeny-tiny QR codes to 30,000 bees
It's like a scannable ID card—but for bees.
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Jan 24, 2025
Researchers glued teeny-tiny QR codes to 30,000 bees
Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles.
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Jan 22, 2025
‘Buzz me in:’ Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets
Researchers attached QR codes to the backs of thousands of bees to track when and for how long they left their hives.
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Oct 09, 2023
Spotted lanternflies make good honey? Top 5 most-read stories from Oct. 2 - 8 [In Case You Missed It]
Top story on LancasterOnline: Spotted lanternflies are the worst, but they're the key to a rare, dark and smoky honey
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Jul 26, 2023
Workshop empowers beekeepers to breed more resilient honey bees
Honey bees are crucial for pollinating crops, but in Northeastern states, according to Penn State researchers, more than 40% of honey bee colonies die each winter partly due to susceptibility to parasites and pathogens.
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Apr 19, 2023
Organic beekeeping rivals conventional methods for bee health, productivity
Honey bee colonies managed using organic methods were as healthy and productive as those managed in conventional systems, while avoiding the use of synthetic pesticides to control pests and pathogens inside the hive, according to newly published research led by Penn State entomologists.
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