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Aug 22, 2017
Research underway in Cleveland by graduate student Denisha Parker, undergraduate Ryan Byler, and entomologist Mary Gardiner was featured in the city's ciCLEvia event July 16.
In its second year, ciCLEvia is an open streets movement that periodically closes down sections of the city to motorists and opens it to everything from yoga to cycling to giant Jenga games and hula hooping.
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Jun 22, 2017
Help us congratulate our award winners from the 2017 Entomological Society of America meeting!
Graduate Student Scholarship:
Katie Todd (The Ohio State University)
John Henry Comstock Award:
Kayla Perry (The Ohio State University)
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Jun 16, 2017
Author and biologist Olivia Carril will travel to Ohio in August to teach four daylong native bee workshops. Each workshop includes hands-on bee identification using microscopes as well as field experiences with plant and bee experts.
Wednesday, August 2: University of Mount Union in Alliance
Thursday, August 3: Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware
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Nov 18, 2016
Our new 2017 Midwest Vegetable Production Guide is now available for download.
The Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers is a collaboration of land-grant universities from seven states. It provides vegetable production information that is valid in the participating states for the current year. This includes fertility, variety, cultural, and pest management recommendations
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Oct 3, 2016
We wanted to share the exciting news of our students, who competed and won awards for presentations of their research:
Molly Dietrich Mabin: second place (advisors Celeste Welty & Mary Gardiner)
Kayla Perry: first place (advisor Dan Herms)
Katherine Todd: second place (advisor Mary Gardiner)
Drew Spacht: first place (advisor Dave Denlinger)
Liu Yang: first place (advisor Pete Piermarini)
Erin O’Brien: first place (advisor Dan Herms)
Huayan Chen: first place (advisor Norm Johnson)
In addition, winners of the Triplehorn Challenge (a timed tournament of curatorial pinning skills):
1st place Alice Vossbrinck (Masters in Plant Health Management student from Entomology)
2nd place Andrea Kautz (MS graduate in Entomology)
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Aug 17, 2016
Although soybean aphids remain at low levels, Reed Johnson and Andy Michel, two Ohio State University researchers are concerned that many growers are going to add insecticides to spray tanks when applying fungicides.
“Well, I’m going over the field anyway so I thought I’d add an insecticide for insurance purposes! The insecticide is relatively cheap and soybeans are worth so much!” is what researchers say they hear from farmers this time of year.
The researchers are clear that they do not recommend this practice, and feel an IPM approach is much better for everyone and everything, including the environment. They do not recommend an insecticide application unless there is a need.
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Jul 11, 2016
Peter Piermarini believes there’s a new, biological way to combat the mosquitoes that transmit Zika, dengue, malaria and other dreaded diseases: Make them unable to pee. It’s no potty joke.
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May 18, 2016
Help Marshall University collect data on cicada activity by visiting this webpage.
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May 16, 2016
Diego Orellana Vintimilla, a M.S. student in the Department of Entomology, was recently named a fellow to the Future Leaders Forum – a competitive program managed by the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development(AIARD) aimed at fostering student interest in international agriculture and rural development issues and their solutions.
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May 4, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Honeybees don’t just buzz. They dance.
And thousands of students in Ohio and seven other states will learn why that’s a vital aspect of honeybee pollination as they participate in this year’s 4-H Ag Innovators Experience, the Honey Bee Challenge.
The challenge was developed by specialists with Ohio State University Extension.
It’s the third consecutive year that OSU Extension has developed the challenge used for the annual innovators experience, sponsored by the National 4-H Council and Monsanto Company.
“There’s a lot of interest and concern about honeybees,” said Beth Hecht, grant manager for the National 4-H Council. “This topic seemed like a natural for our annual challenge.”
