Karen Vail, an extension entomologist at the University of Tennessee, is featured in this local news video on ticks and Lyme disease.

"The ticks are definitely active and have been active for a number of weeks. And we're starting to see mosquitoes active too," she said.

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Jerry Michels, an entomologist at Texas AgriLife Research, is featured in this local news video on salt cedar plants, which consume large amounts of water and have cost millions of dollars to eradicate so far. But Dr. Michels is using a beetle to help.

Dr. Michels says the salt cedar beetle will only feed on the salt cedar trees, so once all of those plants are gone, the beetle will die off. The beetle will not move to eat other foliage, and the insect has been extremely effective so far.

Roger Gold, a professor at Texas A&M, is featured in this local news video on bed bugs.

"We are using more and more baits for things like cockroaches and termites, so we aren't using the same pesticides on the interior structures like we used to. Therefore, the bed bugs have escaped being controlled inadvertentely," he said.

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Grady E. Jones, ACE, an entomologist at Western Exterminator Co. in Las Vegas, NV, was featured in a local news video on bark scorpions.

"We are seeing a lot of calls come in because during the spring and fall that is mating season for scorpions," Jones said. "So, if you see one, chances are you are going to have more."

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Dr. Pathipati Usha Rani is a senior principal scientist at the Biology and Biotechnology Division of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, a national research laboratory under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. She is a newly elected Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, London, thus joining the ranks of such eminent scientists as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Tiffany Heng-Moss, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will receive the 2012 Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA), which recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated meritorious and sustained records of excellence and creativity in teaching. Heng-Moss joined the university in 2001 and has since developed an innovative teaching program that spans grade school, undergraduate, graduate and adult education

Watch a video below about Dr. Heng-Moss and her teaching methods.

Danny McDonald, a researcher at Texas A&M, and Wizzie Brown, BCE, an entomologist with Texas AgriLife Extension, are featured in this news video on the rasberry crazy ant.

Claudia Riegel, Edward D. Freytag and Carrie Owens, from the New Orleans Mosquito & Termite Control Board, are featured in this local news video on Formosan termites.

"It's very, very difficult to find a house that hasn't had termites," said Freytag. "About the only houses that don't have termites are brand new construction, and it doesn't take very long before the termites find that house."

ESA members Donald Lewis, Iowa State University, and Michael Raupp, University of Maryland, were interviewed by NPR for "All Things Considered" in this piece about reports of unusual numbers of insects such as brown marmorated stink bugs and fungus gnats in various parts of the U.S.

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Nancy Hinkle, a veterinary entomologist at the University of Georgia, is featured in this news video on ticks in Georgia.

"This spring came very early. Back in February, people started sending me ticks, and I was a little surprised, quite surprised," she said. "We're finding this tick that should not be here this early in the year."

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