Michael Carroll, an entomologist with the New Orleans Mosquito Control Board, is featured in this news video about buck moth caterpillars in the New Orleans area.

Roger Gold, a professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, is featured in this video on teaching entomology to university students.

Linda S. Rayor, an entomologist at Cornell University, is the host of “Monster Bug Wars,” a new scientific television series on the Science Channel, which is broadcast Tuesday at 10 p.m. EDT. The first episode on March 29 features rain forest insects. The second episode on April 5 pits tree scorpions against giant ants, and the third episode sees centipedes, mantids, spiders and tarantulas.

Video highlights from the Entomological Society of America's Southeastern Branch Linnaean Games Finals between the University of Arkansas and North Carolina State University in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2011. Both teams will compete at the national level at Entomology 2011 in Reno, Nevada in November, 2011.

May Berenbaum, University of Illinois entomology professor and department head, will receive the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an international award that recognizes "those individuals who have contributed in an outstanding manner to scientific knowledge and public leadership to preserve and enhance the environment of the world."

Walter S. Leal, a professor at the University of California, Davis, and researchers in his lab have discovered a “generic insect repellent detector” and its receptor in the fruit fly -- research that may lead to more effective and lower-cost products than DEET, the gold standard of insect repellents.

Deborah A. Delaney, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware, will study the effectiveness of native bumble bees as pollinators of fruits and vegetables. Dr. Delaney will show growers how to pollinate a portion of their fields with native bumble bees, leaving the rest to honey bees.

Brian M. Wiegmann, a professor at North Carolina State University, and collaborators across the globe have mapped the evolutionary history of flies in a project that has been dubbed the "fly tree of life". The project provides a comprehensive picture of fly-life over 260 million years, plugging many evolutionary gaps. The tree -- which comprises of more than 152,000 named species -- should be able to help scientists to find out why some characteristics, for example blood feeding, have popped up over and over again across millions of years of evolution.

Ralph Berry, emeritus professor of entomology at Oregon State University, is serving as co-curator of a new butterfly exhibit at the High Desert Museum in Bend, OR. The exhibit will run until March 26th. Visitors will discover new species metamorphosing and flying about every week.

Wizzie Brown, integrated pest management specialist for AgriLife Extension in Texas, has been scientifically testing alternative, non-chemical means to control fire ants, including the use of club soda, coffee grounds, aspartame, molasses, Epsom salts, orange juice, cola, and cinnamon -- but so far none have seemed to work.