Bucknell Biology

Last weekend Kai Talia and Cristoph presented their research at 101 Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. (and found sometime to play some cards).

The Wayne E. Manning Herbarium is now back online! Visit our website here (including some Bucknell botany history), where you can also find a link to our our searchable database page on the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium! More than 22,000 specimen records at your fingertips, dating from the mid- to late-1800s up until around 2012! (We're gradually getting the newer specimens databased, also.)

Wayne E. Manning Herbarium The Wayne E. Manning Herbarium (BUPL) contains approximately 25,000 specimens (ca. 85% databased) of plants including Lycophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. Because of Professor Wayne Eyer Manning's (1899-2004) interest in the systematics of the walnut-hickory family, Bucknell's

Field Entomology students going to great lengths to find the best bugs!

Congratulations to all of our 2025 graduates!!!

Students from the Stowe and Paliulis labs are presenting their research at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science this weekend.

Some Biologists and friends of Biology at the Bucknell holiday luncheon.

A hidden gem of the Biology Department. 🌿🌳🌵🌼🪻🌷

Most of the 2024-2025 Bucknell Biology gang.

Yesterday, Prof. Capaldi's Elizabeth Capaldi Social Insects class set up what beekeepers know as a "shook swarm," as an artificial induction of a swarm is a great way to learn about insect communication via pheromones, colony cohesion, and switched behavioral states in honey bees. 8 people, 40,000+ bees, 1 swarm (possibly 2 queens?), and 0 stings!