Harland Patch

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor, Entomology

Research Summary

Research focus is the decline of honey bee and other pollinator populations.

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Recent Publications

Ecology and Management of African Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Frazier, M., Muli, E. & Patch, H., Jan 25 2024, In: Annual Review of Entomology. 69, p. 439-453 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Numerical Modeling and Measurement of Apis Mellifera Radar Scattering Properties

Alzaabi, O., Al-Khaldi, M. M., Ayotte, K., Penaloza, D., Urbina, J., Breakall, J. K., Lanagan, M., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., 2022, In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Soil moisture affects plant-pollinator interactions in an annual flowering plant

Dai, W., Yang, Y., Patch, H. M., Grozinger, C. M. & Mu, J., 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 377, 1853, 20210423.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Author Correction: Herbaceous perennial ornamental plants can support complex pollinator communities (Scientific Reports, (2021), 11, 1, (17352), 10.1038/s41598-021-95892-w)

Erickson, E., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 2960.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Complex floral traits shape pollinator attraction to ornamental plants

Erickson, E., Junker, R. R., Ali, J. G., McCartney, N., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., Oct 1 2022, In: Annals of botany. 130, 4, p. 561-577 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Measuring Plant Attractiveness to Pollinators: Methods and Considerations

Erickson, E., Grozinger, C. M. & Patch, H. M., Oct 1 2022, In: Journal of economic entomology. 115, 5, p. 1571-1582 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Impacts of soil nutrition on floral traits, pollinator attraction, and fitness in cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.)

Vaudo, A. D., Erickson, E., Patch, H. M., Grozinger, C. M. & Mu, J., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 21802.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee

Dogantzis, K. A., Tiwari, T., Conflitti, I. M., Dey, A., Patch, H. M., Muli, E. M., Garnery, L., Whitfield, C. W., Stolle, E., Alqarni, A. S., Allsopp, M. H. & Zayed, A., Dec 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 49, eabj2151.

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Herbaceous perennial ornamental plants can support complex pollinator communities

Erickson, E., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports. 11, 1, 17352.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Economic dependence and vulnerability of united states agricultural sector on insect-mediated pollination service

Khanna, V., Jordan, A., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., Feb 16 2021, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 55, 4, p. 2243-2253 11 p.

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More Than Meets the Eye? the Role of Annual Ornamental Flowers in Supporting Pollinators

Erickson, E., Adam, S., Russo, L., Wojcik, V., Patch, H. M. & Grozinger, C. M., Feb 17 2020, In: Environmental entomology. 49, 1, p. 178-188 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A screening-level assessment of the pollinator-attractiveness of ornamental nursery stock using a honey bee foraging assay

Sponsler, D. B., Grozinger, C. M., Richardson, R. T., Nurse, A., Brough, D., Patch, H. M. & Stoner, K. A., Dec 1 2020, In: Scientific reports. 10, 1, 831.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Pollen protein: Lipid macronutrient ratios may guide broad patterns of bee species floral preferences

Vaudo, A. D., Tooker, J. F., Patch, H. M., Biddinger, D. J., Coccia, M., Crone, M. K., Fiely, M., Francis, J. S., Hines, H. M., Hodges, M., Jackson, S. W., Michez, D., Mu, J., Russo, L., Safari, M., Treanore, E. D., Vanderplanck, M., Yip, E., Leonard, A. S. & Grozinger, C. M., Feb 2020, In: Insects. 11, 2, 132.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Investigating the viral ecology of global bee communities with high-throughput metagenomics

Galbraith, D. A., Fuller, Z. L., Ray, A. M., Brockmann, A., Frazier, M., Gikungu, M. W., Martinez, J. F. I., Kapheim, K. M., Kerby, J. T., Kocher, S. D., Losyev, O., Muli, E., Patch, H. M., Rosa, C., Sakamoto, J. M., Stanley, S., Vaudo, A. D. & Grozinger, C. M., Dec 1 2018, In: Scientific reports. 8, 1, 8879.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Consistent pollen nutritional intake drives bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colony growth and reproduction across different habitats

Vaudo, A. D., Farrell, L. M., Patch, H. M., Grozinger, C. M. & Tooker, J. F., Jun 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 11, p. 5765-5776 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review