Harold Harlan, one of the leading bed bug experts in the U.S., is featured on the cover of Pest Control Technology Magazine.

Dr. Harlan has kept bed bugs in his home for 38 years, ever since 1973 when he collected his first hundred or so at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Harlan was a military entomologist in the U.S. Army (he retired from 25 years of active duty in 1994).

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Ross H. Miller, a professor of entomology at the University Of Guam, appears in this news video on invasive fire ants. "What this ant does is that it swarms and pretty much eats all of the animals, all of the small insects, the small snails, lizzards, geckos. It pretty much makes the forest a wasteland,” he explained. "It's just devastating."

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Dini Miller, an entomologist at Virginia Tech University, is featured in this local news video on bed bugs.

"Bed bugs have spread throughout the United States. We have bed bugs in all 50 states now and some spots are really heavily infested," she said.

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Mike Merchant, an urban entomologist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, is featured in this news video on crazy ants, which got their name from the fast paced and erratic movements they make, and their ability to overtake whatever they want.

“They`ll get in your house, they`ll form trails a foot wide sometimes around houses and getting into houses.  Most people that have them will say they are worst than fire ants,” Merchant said.

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Phillip Roberts, an entomologist from the University of Georgia, is featured in this TV news report on stink bugs, especially the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive insect that is damaging crops in the U.S. Watch the video below.

Henry Fadamiro, an entomologist at Auburn University, and a multi-disciplinary team of scientists have been awarded a four-year, $881,829 grant by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop and demonstrate successful integrated pest management, or IPM, strategies for the organic production of cabbage, collard, broccoli and other high-value cruciferous vegetable crops in Alabama and surrounding states.

Thomas Sparks, a researcher with Dow AgroSciences, has been named the winner of the 2012 International Award for Research in Agrochemicals by the Agrochemical Division of the American Chemical Society.

Seven ESA members have won 2011 Crown Leadership Awards, co-sponsored by Pest Control Technology Magazine (PCT) and Syngenta Professional Products. Since being introduced in 1989, more than 200 pest management professionals, university educators, association officials, and members of the distribution community have received the  prestigious award, which is presented annually during a reception at the National Pest Management Association's PestWorld Meeting.

Dr. Hugh Robertson, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a Certificate of Distinction from the International Congress of Entomology (ICE) for his fundamental contributions to insect genome science, involving collaborators on five continents. This prestigious award, which is only given three times (at most) every four years, will be presented to Dr. Robertson at the opening ceremony of the next Congress to be held in Daegu, South Korea in August 2012. It will include a cash prize of $5,000. 

Mark Hoddle, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, is featured in this Los Angeles Times article, along with his wife Christina, on biological control. The Hoddles have traveled to Pakistan's Punjab province several times, looking for natural enemies of the Asian citrus psyllid, an insect that has been sucking the fluids out of citrus trees in California since 2008 — and spreading a bacterial disease known as huanglongbing (Chinese for "yellow dragon disease") through Florida.