Justin Schmidt, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, has been stung by insects hundreds of times over the course of his career. In the mid-1980s, he decided to categorize these experiences scientifically. The...
Florence Dunkel, an entomologist at Montana State University, is the subject of this news video on entomophagy (eating insects). Dunkel says about 80% of the world's population actually consumes insects and it...
Lyric Bartholomay, director of Iowa State University’s Medical Entomology Lab, was interviewed by the Des Moines Register about her work on mosquito surveillance. Read the interview.
Frank Zalom, a professor of entomology and former vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, was recently elected to be the Vice President-Elect of the Entomological Society of America. This means he'll...
Michael Raupp, a University of Maryland professor and "Bug of the Week" blogger, is the subject of this article from the Baltimore Sun. Dr. Raupp's communications skills have made him a popular guest on...
Danielle Wishon, an entomology major at the University of California, Davis and president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, has received the UC Davis Department Of Entomology’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student...
Scott O'Neill, a medical researcher at Monash University in Australia, is featured in this NPR story on a new approach to control mosquitoes by infecting them with Wolbachia bacteria. O'Neill infected hundreds...
Tracy Leskey, a research entomologist with the USDA, was interviewed by West Virginia Public Broadcasting about the brown marmorated stink bug and the damage it is doing to fruit and vegetables. Listen to the interview.
Joe Keiper, an entomologist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, was interviewed by NPR about a "Bugnado" -- a cloud of insects the size of a tornado -- that swept across flooded corn fields in Iowa....
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, has discovered a shiny black wasp that appears to be the "Komodo dragon" of the wasp...
