Harland Patch Ph.D.

Director of Pollinator Programming at The Arboretum at Penn State
Assistant Research Professor

549 Ag Sciences & Industries Building, University Park

Areas of Expertise

Bees Medicine & Life Sciences
Bee Earth & Environmental Sciences
Honey Medicine & Life Sciences
Bombus Agriculture & Biology
Pollen Medicine & Life Sciences
Bees Agriculture & Biology
Pollinator Earth & Environmental Sciences
Pollen Agriculture & Biology

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998

Websites

Elsevier Pure Profile

: Dr. Patch's research focuses on the genetics and genomics of olfaction in insects and other arthropods. Honey bee olfaction plays a central role in social integration, defense of the colony and in nectar and pollen finding. He is currently involved in a project to understand the evolution of the honey bee olfactory system and how selection has influenced changes in chemoreceptors and other proteins. Other projects include developing genomic resources for Varroa mites and, in collaboration with other members of the CPR group, understanding Varroa resistance in subspecies of Apis mellifera in East Africa.
: 2021

Numerical Modeling and Measurement of Apis Mellifera Radar Scattering Properties
Omar Alzaabi, Mohammad M. Al-Khaldi, Kenneth Ayotte, Diego Penaloza, Julio Urbina, James K. Breakall, Michael Lanagan, Harland M. Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, 2021, In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Herbaceous perennial ornamental plants can support complex pollinator communities
E. Erickson, H. M. Patch, C. M. Grozinger, Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports

Economic dependence and vulnerability of united states agricultural sector on insect-mediated pollination service
Vikas Khanna, Alex Jordan, Harland M. Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, Feb 16 2021, In: Environmental Science and Technology

Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee
Kathleen A. Dogantzis, Tanushree Tiwari, Ida M. Conflitti, Alivia Dey, Harland M. Patch, Elliud M. Muli, Lionel Garnery, Charles W. Whitfield, Eckart Stolle, Abdulaziz S. Alqarni, Michael H. Allsopp, Amro Zayed, Dec 2021, In: Science Advances

2022

Soil moisture affects plant-pollinator interactions in an annual flowering plant
Wenfei Dai, Yulian Yang, Harland M. Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, Junpeng Mu, 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Author Correction
E. Erickson, H. M. Patch, C. M. Grozinger, Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports

Complex floral traits shape pollinator attraction to ornamental plants
E. Erickson, R. R. Junker, Jared Gregory Ali, N. McCartney, H. M. Patch, C. M. Grozinger, Sep 26 2022, In: Annals of botany

Measuring Plant Attractiveness to Pollinators
E. Erickson, C. M. Grozinger, H. M. Patch, Oct 12 2022, In: Journal of economic entomology

Impacts of soil nutrition on floral traits, pollinator attraction, and fitness in cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.)
Anthony D. Vaudo, Emily Erickson, Harland M. Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, Junpeng Mu, Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports

2020

More Than Meets the Eye? the Role of Annual Ornamental Flowers in Supporting Pollinators
E. Erickson, S. Adam, L. Russo, V. Wojcik, H. M. Patch, C. M. Grozinger, Feb 17 2020, In: Environmental entomology

A screening-level assessment of the pollinator-attractiveness of ornamental nursery stock using a honey bee foraging assay
Douglas B. Sponsler, Christina M. Grozinger, Rodney T. Richardson, Andrea Nurse, Dalton Brough, Harland M. Patch, Kimberly A. Stoner, Dec 1 2020, In: Scientific reports

Pollen protein
Anthony D. Vaudo, John F. Tooker, Harland M. Patch, David J. Biddinger, Michael Coccia, Makaylee K. Crone, Mark Fiely, Jacob S. Francis, Heather M. Hines, Mackenzie Hodges, Stephanie W. Jackson, Denis Michez, Junpeng Mu, Laura Russo, Maliheh Safari, Erin D. Treanore, Maryse Vanderplanck, Eric Yip, A..., Feb 2020, In: Insects

2018

Investigating the viral ecology of global bee communities with high-throughput metagenomics
David A. Galbraith, Zachary L. Fuller, Allyson M. Ray, Axel Brockmann, Maryann Frazier, Mary W. Gikungu, J. Francisco Iturralde Martinez, Karen M. Kapheim, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Sarah D. Kocher, Oleksiy Losyev, Elliud Muli, Harland M. Patch, Cristina Rosa, Joyce M. Sakamoto, Scott Stanley, Anthony D. Va..., Dec 1 2018, In: Scientific reports

Consistent pollen nutritional intake drives bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colony growth and reproduction across different habitats
Anthony D. Vaudo, Liam M. Farrell, Harland M. Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, John F. Tooker, Jan 1 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution

2017

The impact of hive type on the behavior and health of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) in Kenya
Alexander McMenamin, Fiona Mumoki, Maryann Frazier, Joseph Kilonzo, Bernard Mweu, Tracey Baumgarten, Harland Patch, Baldwyn Torto, Daniel Masiga, James Tumlinson, Christina Grozinger, Elliud Muli, Sep 1 2017, In: Apidologie

2016

Bumble bees regulate their intake of essential protein and lipid pollen macronutrients
A. D. Vaudo, D. Stabler, H. M. Patch, J. F. Tooker, C. M. Grozinger, G. A. Wright, Dec 15 2016, In: Journal of Experimental Biology

Erratum
Anthony D. Vaudo, John F. Tooker, Christina M. Grozinger, Harland M. Patch, Jun 1 2016, In: Current Opinion in Insect Science

Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences
Anthony D. Vaudo, Harland M. Patch, David A. Mortensen, John F. Tooker, Christina M. Grozinger, Jul 12 2016, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

2015

Genome-wide analysis of signatures of selection in populations of African honey bees (Apis mellifera) using new web-based tools
Zachary L. Fuller, Elina L. Niño, Harland M. Patch, Oscar C. Bedoya-Reina, Tracey Baumgarten, Elliud Muli, Fiona Mumoki, Aakrosh Ratan, John McGraw, Maryann Frazier, Daniel Masiga, Stephen Schuster, Christina M. Grozinger, Webb Miller, Jul 10 2015, In: BMC genomics

Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration
Anthony D. Vaudo, John F. Tooker, Christina M. Grozinger, Harland M. Patch, Jun 11 2015, In: Current Opinion in Insect Science

Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying sex- and maturation-related variation in pheromone responses in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Gabriel Villar, Thomas Charles Baker, Harland Martin Patch, Christina M. Grozinger, Jul 13 2015, In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

2014

Evaluation of the distribution and impacts of parasites, pathogens, and pesticides on honey bee (apis mellifera) populations in east Africa
Elliud Muli, Harland Patch, Maryann Frazier, James Frazier, Baldwyn Torto, Tracey Baumgarten, Joseph Kilonzo, James Ng ang a. Kimani, Fiona Mumoki, Daniel Masiga, James Tumlinson, Christina Grozinger, Apr 16 2014, In: PloS one

Bumble bees exhibit daily behavioral patterns in pollen foraging
Anthony D. Vaudo, Harland M. Patch, David A. Mortensen, Christina M. Grozinger, John F. Tooker, 2014, In: Arthropod-Plant Interactions

2010

The transcription factor Krüppel homolog 1 is linked to hormone mediated social organization in bees
Hagai Shpigler, Harland M. Patch, Mira Cohen, Yongliang Fan, Christina M. Grozinger, Guy Bloch, 2010, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology

2012

Plasmodium vivax populations revisited
Miao Miao, Zhaoqing Yang, Harland Patch, Yaming Huang, Ananias A. Escalante, Liwang Cui, 2012, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology

2009

A candidate pheromone receptor and two odorant receptors of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta
Harland M. Patch, Rodrigo A. Velarde, Kimberly K.O. Walden, Hugh M. Robertson, 2009, In: Chemical senses

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