Coby Schal, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, was featured on NPR's Science Friday in this video on how and why cockroaches clean themselves. To clean its antenna, a cockroach will grab ahold of it with its front leg, bring the antenna to its mouth, and run the antenna from base to tip through its mandibles like a piece of floss.

Anne Nielsen, a new faculty member in the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University, has been awarded $2,672,327 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture in support of a multi-regional, transdisciplinary effort to develop and disseminate whole-farm organic management of the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB). 

The invasive stink bug is causing significant economic losses in the Mid-Atlantic states and is increasingly spreading to Southern and Mid-Western states.

Philip Koehler, an entomologist at the University of Florida, is featured in this news video about his work on developing a better fly trap. Dr. Koehler and others in his lab found that flies are most strongly attracted to the color blue, despite the fact that most fly papers and other traps are yellow. The new fly traps are protected by a UF patent. A Sarasota company has licensed the design under the name "Florida Fly Baiter," which is sold online.

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Greg Wiggins, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is featured in this news video about scientists using small wasps to control the emerald ash borer.

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Prof. S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University, has been awarded the Distinguished Research Medal of the International Society of Hymenopterists for 2012. This medal is awarded every 2-4 years by the society to a scientist that has made outstanding contributions to research on Hymenoptera, over a lifetime of work.

Nancy Hinkle, professor of entomology at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Governing Board member of the Entomological Society of America, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 56th Annual Livestock Insect Workers' Conference held in Kalispell, Mont. Bayer HealthCare LLC, Animal Health Division, serves as the sponsor for the $5,000 annual award.

Silvia Rondon, Oregon State University Hermiston Research & Extension Center entomologist, discussed recent potato psyllid and zebra chip findings in Oregon in this video by Spudman Magazine. Dr. Rondon was also interviewed by Northwest Public Radio.

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Michael Raupp, a professor, author and nationally recognized entomology expert from College Park, Md., is this year’s recipient of the International Society of Arboriculture’s (ISA) prestigious R.W. Harris Author’s Citation.

Bob Wright, an extension entomologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was interviewed by Market Journal about soybean aphids. Wright says with cooler weather in the forecast, producers should be scouting their fields for this pest.

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Robert Peterson, a professor of entomology at Montana State University, was interviewed by National Public Radio about aerial spraying to control mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus, since some people are expressing concerns about how the pesticides will affect their health.

"The scientific weight of evidence strongly suggests that there's negligible risk from the spraying, and there's not negligible risk from West Nile virus disease," he said.