Entomology in Biological News

Symposia selected for Entomological Society of America meeting

... to Teach Evolutionary Concepts Celebrating entomology at the USDA Agricultural Research Service ... and Future of IPM Celebrating the Role of entomology in the Genomics Revolution Colleagues, ... Chemicals, Signals, and Interactions entomology and Bioenergy Insect Molecular Physiology: ...

Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award

... 1970, and a member of UC Davis Department of entomology faculty since 1992, will receive the award at the ... "The award recognizes his contributions to entomology over the last 10 years but in reality it is for a ... in zoology in 1964 and his master's degree in entomology in 1966. He earned his doctorate ...

UC Davis chemical ecologist wins major award

... ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, is the ... Colleague Ring Card, chair of the Department of entomology at UC Riverside, lauded Leal as "one of the ... his tenure as chair, the UC Davis Department of entomology was ranked last November as the No. 1 department ...

Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners

... and extension specialist in the Department of entomology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He completed his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in entomology at Texas A&M University, and earned his B.S. degree in entomology at Cornell University. Baxendale has extensive ...

Entomological Society of America names new Fellows for 2008

... an academic appointment with the Department of entomology at Texas A&M University, worked through the ... and book chapters in medical and agricultural entomology and insect pathology, and has edited or co-edited ... his master's degree (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) in entomology at the University of California, Riverside. His ...

Entomological Society announces 2007 award winners

... William (Bill) D. Hutchison, is a professor of entomology and extension entomologist at the University of ... Distinguished Achievement Award in Horticultural entomology This award honors any entomologist who has ... an associate editor for Journal of Economic entomology and Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. ...

Entomological Society of America recognizes 2007 fellows and honorary members

... actively in ESA affairs and served the field of entomology with distinction. The honorees will be recognized ... for his research and teaching in forest entomology at the University of Georgia, where he has served ... has been on the faculty of the Department of entomology at Iowa State University for 29 years. He served ...

Penn State entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell

... researchers, who include Thomas Baker and Matthew Thomas, professors of entomology and Andrew Read, professor of biology and entomology and Eberly College of Science distinguished senior scholar, are all part ...

UC Riverside professor receives top scientific honor

... such as malaria and dengue," said Ring Card, chair of UCR's Department of entomology . Raikhel was raised and educated in the Soviet Union. He obtained his ... the mosquito from disease. Raikhel came to UCR's Department of entomology in January 2002 from Michigan State University. He is a recipient of many ...

Penn State researcher wins Entomological Society of America award

... of America (ESA). The award honors young professionals working in entomology who have demonstrated innovation through contributions within any area of ... the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. She received her doctorate in entomology from the University of Georgia. De Moraes' primary scientific interests ...

UCR graduate student discovers, names bacterium linked to psyllid yellows

... industry. Hansen, Stouthamer, Paine and John Trumble , a professor of entomology at UCR, reported the discovery of the new bacterium in a research paper ... the bacterium's genome. Her research is funded by UCR's Department of entomology . ...

After more than 100 years apart, webworms devastate New Zealand parsnips

... one another. The research team, led by University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum, made two key findings. First, ... parts, said Art Zangerl, a senior research scientist in the department of entomology and co-author on the paper. The affected plants were contributing zero ...

Cat fleas' journey into the vacuum is a 'one-way trip'

... it's probably a one-way trip, said Glen Needham, associate professor of entomology at Ohio State and a co-author of the study. The results are published ... or frozen. Lead study author W. Fred Hink, professor emeritus of entomology at Ohio State and a longtime researcher in nontoxic controls of fleas on ...

UC Davis grant zeroes in on novel asthma diagnosis and treatment

... DAVIS--An entomology professor at the University of California, Davis who discovered a novel therapeutic target for treating inflammation, has received a three-year ...

'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference

... and to interact with professionals," said president Eric Mussen of Davis, Cooperative Extension apiculturist and member of the UC Davis Department of entomology faculty since 1976. WAS, founded in 1978, is a non-profit, educational, beekeeping organization that draws its membership from beekeepers ...

Rabbits on the back foot -- but naturally they're fighting back

... knocked them about but they bounced back. The same with rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) or the calicivirus. Now Dr Tanja Strive from CSIRO entomology and the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre has found that some rabbits in cool, high rainfall areas carry a benign virus that gives them ...

IPM reduces cockroaches and allergens in schools

... rates among children with exposure to cockroach allergens, especially among inner-city children. A new study in the May issue of Journal of Medical entomology entitled "German Cockroach Allergen Levels in North Carolina Schools: Comparison of Integrated Pest Management and Conventional Cockroach Control" ...

Mites on hissing coackroach may benefit humans with allergies

... that this helps the cockroaches, but reducing the fungi present on their surface is beneficial overall," said Joshua Benoit, a doctoral student in entomology at Ohio State University and a co-author of the study. "By suppressing the molds, the mites have a role in reducing allergic reactions to ....

NIH funds development of resistance-breaking insecticides to reduce malaria transmission

... of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This earlier project was led by Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, professor of toxicology and pharmacology in the entomology department of Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "In 2005, we had a great multidisciplinary team and a promising new idea," ...

A natural, alternative insect repellent to DEET

... new processing methods may make it as cheap to produce as DEET. The results of this research are presented in the latest issue of Journal of Medical entomology in an article by Aijun Zhang et. al titled "Isolongifolenone: A Novel Sesquiterpene Repellent of Ticks and Mosquitoes." The authors found that ...

Mosquitoes create harmonic love song before mating, study finds

... behavior. The study is available online today (Jan. 8) and will be published in a February issue of Science , said Cornell associate professor of entomology and mosquito expert Laura Harrington, a co-senior author on the study with Hoy. "The frequency at which males and females converge is a harmonic or ...

Florida professor creates endowment for insect scientists

... Dr. Nan-Yao Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, has donated $250,000 to the Entomological Society of America (ESA) for the establishment of an endowment to award ...

Honey bees on cocaine dance more, changing ideas about the insect brain

... detailed this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology , shed new light on the famous honey bee dance language, said University of Illinois entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson, who led the study. The research also supports the idea that in certain circumstances, honey bees, like ...

13 UCR faculty members recognized by American Association for the Advancement of Science

... evolution of plant/insect herbivore/natural enemy tritrophic associations and ecological genetics." Marshall W. Johnson, an extension specialist in entomology and a UCR alumnus: "For distinguished contributions to the fields of biological control and integrated pest management, particularly for the ...

Moving in for the winter toxic brown recluse spiders pose danger

... spiders are not aggressive, and because they are so reclusive, most bites happen by accident, according to Richard Houseman, associate professor of entomology in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. If brown recluse spiders are known to be in a home, Houseman recommends checking ...

Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versa

... of a two-way street than most of us realize. This is not a new idea to neuroscience, but one that is gaining strength, said University of Illinois entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson, lead author of a review on the subject this week in the journal Science . Stanford University biology ...

Almond pest management team to receive major award at ESA meeting

... Convention Center. The award is sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection. The team includes IPM specialist Frank Zalom, UC Davis professor of entomology and a newly selected ESA Fellow; Carolyn Pickel, UC Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba counties; Walter Bentley, UC Kearney Agricultural Center, ...

Diversity among parasitic wasps is even greater than suspected

... apart that just using the morphology alone, or the genetic data or the ecological information alone isn't enough," said University of Illinois entomology professor James Whitfield, who led the taxonomic study. "However, once the species are distinguished, anyone can use the DNA barcode to rapidly and ...

Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant

... respond to changes in need or environmental fluctuations," said principal investigator Andrew Suarez, an Illinois professor of animal biology and of entomology and an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology. In the new study, the researchers analyzed what the P. badius ants were eating. Using ...

Researchers to study lyme-like illness in Texas

... Lin and Norris will collaborate with Pete Teel, Ph.D. Teel is a professor and associate department head at the Texas A&M University Department of entomology and is an expert in environmental factors affecting tick populations in Texas and other regions. Edwin Masters, M.D., a physician who has studied ...

Study shows single insecticide application can kill 3 cockroach generations

... succumbed to the indoxacarb-containing excretions from the dying cockroaches, the researchers report in the June issue of the Journal of Economic entomology . In the third stage of transfer, or tertiary kill, an average of 81 percent of the adult male cockroaches that ate the dead nymphs' bodies also ....

Pathway found that lets mosquitoes fatten up, slow down for winter

... fat and halt reproductive activity in preparation for its months-long dormancy, said David Denlinger, senior author of the study and professor of entomology at Ohio State University. The research appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Denlingers lab is ...

UC biology prof traces his roots to the first Earth Day

... George Uetz, professor of biological sciences in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, was a Master's student in the Department of entomology and Applied Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark. That wasnt his only passion. I was a student activist in the anti-war movement as ...

Armed beetles find a mate, whatever their size

... it comes to finding a mate. The creatures pulling techniques will be revealed in the April edition of the Royal Entomological Societys Ecological entomology journal. In the world of armed beetles, biggest is usually best, as males often fight for mating rights and those with the largest jaws beat off ...

Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a higher CO2 world

... by the year 2050, DeLucia said, and the rapid industrialization of India and China may even accelerate that timetable. The new study, led by entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum, used the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (Soy FACE) facility at Illinois. This open-air ...

Netting mosquitoes to prevent malaria

... about 3,000 children each day in Africa. Research has shown that using bed nets may cut mortality in half. A microbiology and molecular genetics and entomology researcher, Walker's research focuses on how infectious diseases are transmitted, especially those that use mosquitoes as a mechanism to spread. ...

UCR-led research team uses tiny wasp to wipe out major agricultural pest in Tahiti

... permanent control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter in Tahiti and its neighboring islands, said Hoddle, an extension specialist in the Department of entomology and the director of the Center for Invasive Species Research . When biological control the use of a pests natural enemies to keep the pests ...

Haagen-Dazs gift to support Penn State honeybee research

... Swiss Almond and Strawberry, would be difficult to source," said Haagen-Dazs brand manager Josh Gellert. Diana Cox-Foster, Penn State professor of entomology and co-chair of a national working group of CCD researchers, said Haagen-Dazs' contribution will allow Penn State to purchase two expensive pieces of ...

Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover

... floor. Both Dudley and Kaspari are affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Yanoviak is also with the Florida Medical entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Fla. In May 2005, when searching for a colony of the ants in a downed tree on Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Dudley was ...

Ant invaders eat the natives, then move down the food chain

... in a warm climate with abundant water, and is often found on agricultural lands or near cities. But it also invades natural areas, said U. of I. entomology professor Andrew Suarez, principal investigator on the new study. The ant is highly social, and sometimes forms immense super-colonies made up of ...