Florence Dunkel, a professor at Montana State University, is featured in a recent article in the New Yorker Magazine about eating insects (entomophagy).

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Also, her collaboration on the article with the author, who attended ESA's 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego, is summarized in this article from Montana State University.

Coby Schal, professor of entomology at North Carolina State University, is one of the the first recipients of NC State’s Chancellor’s Innovation Fund award for his development of a new bed bug baiting system. His project will receive up to $75,000 in seed money that will be used gather additional data, conduct market research, and build prototypes in order to make the technology more marketable. The award is meant to bring technological breakthroughs one step closer to becoming reality.

Greg Zolnerowich, associate professor of entomology and curator for the K-State Museum of Entomological and Prairie Arthropod Research, is part of a collaborative team that has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create an online museum of more than 50 million insects. This project will create InvertNet, an online museum comprising insect and related arthropod specimens housed at 22 Midwestern institutions, focusing on the research theme of land use changes on the bigota of the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River drainage basins.

Ashley Kennedy and Kathryn Weglarz, both graduate students at the University of Delaware, are embarking on a two-week expedition in Costa Rica, learning field collection techniques in entomology. They are among 15 winners of the latest round of competitive global grants awarded by the University’s Office of Graduate and Professional Education in collaboration with the Institute for Global Studies and UD’s seven colleges.

Mark Sheperdigian, an entomologist with Rose Pest Solutions, is featured in this news video from a local Detroit TV station.

"The products we have today, the bed bugs show a great resistance to which means it doesn't work as well, doesn't kill them as quickly, if it kills them at all," Sheperdigian said. "Clearly the bed bugs have changed from what they were before and they have continued to change and it's our job to get in front of them."

Erin Hodgson, an Iowa State University extension entomologist, and Matt O’Neal, an ISU research entomologist, have co-authored a collaborative second edition of the Soybean Aphid Field Guide, which was released by ISU and the Iowa Soybean Association.

Dr. Daniel A. Herms, a professor of entomology at Ohio State University, has conducted a study showing that soil applications of Safari® Insecticide are providing strong results against the emerald ash borer (EAB), a highly destructive invasive insect which has killed tens of millions of ash trees across the Midwestern and Eastern United States during the past 10 years, and the infestation area is spreading rapidly.

Dr. Ames Herbert, an entomologist at Virginia Tech University, provides images of BMSB injury to soybean pods, seed, and the ‘stay-green’ condition in fields. Preliminary results of in-field distribution studies and field cage studies that measured impact to soybean are also included along with limited results of insecticide effectiveness studies, and preliminary management recommendations. View and listen to the webcast.

Marla Spivak, a MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished McKnight Professor and extension entomologist in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota, answers questions in this interview about honey bees and their importance to agriculture, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and her approaches to improving bee survival. Read the full interview.

Lance S. Osborne, an entomology professor and associate director of the University of Florida's Mid-Florida Research and Education Center in Apopka, led a study that found that papaya plants can be used to host a wasp that attacks silverleaf whiteflies, an insect that is a major pest of tomatoes.