Tracy Leskey (USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station) and Michael Raupp (University of Maryland) appeared on NPR's Diane Rehm Show, where they talked about the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB). First seen in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, the BMSB has been spotted in 40 states.

In this interview, the entomologists reveal the secrets of stinkbugs and talk about the search for sustainable methods of control.

Jim Fredericks, chief entomologist for the National Pest Management Association and a ten-year ESA member, appears in this TV news video on the 2013 cicada invasion of the east coast. The video, which is in Question & Answer format, is 5:44 minutes long and Dr. Fredericks discusses when the cicadas will emerge, how many will come, and other interesting facts.

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In this article, Neal H. Haskell, BCE, a forensic entomology consultant, is interviewed about his work as a forensic entomology consultant to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across North America.

He has appeared on more than 45 television programs and he was the forensic entomologist for the prosecution in the Casey Anthony case in Florida.

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Edward Bechinski, a professor at the University of Idaho, is featured in this TV news video on a recent carpenter ant invasion.

"They're simply coming out of the nest where they spent the winter and they have one thing on their mind, and that's to mate," said U of I Professor of Entomology Edward Bechinski. "So we'll see this flight, sort of a honeymoon flight, and then it will quickly disappear and that'll be it for the end of the season."

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Richard C. Back, 91, died peacefully March 31, 2013, at the Masonic Care Community in Utica, NY, with his family at his side. Richard had previously resided in Irvington, NY, Washington, DC, Jacksonville, FL, and Raleigh, NC. 

Lauren Weidner, a Rutgers graduate student in entomology, studies maggots in her lab. And according to this article, her research in the growing field of forensic entomology could make her the state’s most unlikely crime fighter.

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At an age when most kids were sitting on the family room floor watching Captain Kangaroo, Andy Brower was running across the green hills of Trinidad, watching his parents collect butterflies. Both were renowned entomologists: his mother, Jane, conducted groundbreaking research on butterfly mimicry, the protective adaptation by which one species develops the markings of another; his father, Lincoln, built on her research and also received acclaim for his study of the unique migratory pattern of the monarch butterfly.

Daniel Young, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin and Director of the UW Insect Research Collection, is portrayed in a new children’s book about Henri Bell (after Jean-Henri Fabre), a ten-year-old boy who can communicate with insects.

Dr. Roxanne Connelly received the gavel for the presidency of the American Mosquito Control Association at the business meeting on Feb. 27th, during the organization’s 79th annual meeting at Atlantic City New Jersey.

Every year, California’s diverse ecosystem is invaded by new, often-destructive species of exotic pests, resulting in annual economic losses of more than $3 billion. In this short video, Mark Hoddle, the director of the Center for Invasive Species Research at the University of California, Riverside, looks for a way to save the state’s oak trees from the goldspotted oak borer beetle, an invasive pest that has killed up to 80,000 oak trees in Southern California.

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