RA Cooley Entomology Club-MSU

02/05/2019

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Through surveys, this project will delineate the expanding range of a new invasive aphid, Metopolophium festucae cerealium (Mfc) in the Pacific Northwest. A known pest of cereal crops in its native range in the UK, this pest became abundant in wheat at many locations in the Pacific Northwest by...

09/27/2017

Big Sandy Bees

03/07/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCr5OxXN1A

Researchers trained bumblebees in a stepwise manner to pull a string to access a reward (sucrose). Other bumblebees learned by observing trained demonstrator...

02/09/2017

http://discovermagazine.com/2017/march/buzzkill

The science and politics of saving America’s bees gets messy. And the bees continue to die.

02/09/2017

http://www.sciencealert.com/dragonfly-wings-can-rip-apart-bacteria-without-antibiotics

Special bacteria-killing surfaces constitute a highly active area of research and development. Strategies to construct them vary widely.

10/02/2016

http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/17/scientists-say-gmo-foods-are-safe-public-skepticism-remains/?utm_source+Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_twfd20160517gmo&utm_campaign=Content&sf26432010=1

Genetically-engineered crops are as safe to eat as their non-GE counterparts, they have no adverse environmental impacts, and they have reduced the use of pesticides. That’s according to a comprehe…

09/30/2016

Interesting:
http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/30_september_2016?sub_id=jvHFCn5rtw0p&u1=20314781&folio=1499&pg=105

In his book, The Expression of the Emo- tions in Man and Animals, Charles Dar- win noted that “Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.” Almost 150 years later, spurred by an interest in the evolutionary roots of emotional (affective) processes and their underlyi...

09/23/2016

Good news for Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinis):

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/rusty-patched-bumble-bee-recommended-endangered-list-42284673

Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent of its historic range in just the past two decades. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service made the recommendation...

04/09/2016

Please join us coming Sunday, April 10. Anytime between 4pm and 9pm. Bring your friends too!



http://www.groupraise.com/events/10768

03/10/2016

http://nativeplantwildlifegarden.com/will-we-all-die-if-honey-bees-disappear/

One third of our food needs to be pollinated by insects. Honey bees are responsible for most of it. With 4,000 species of bees in North America plus numerous other pollinators of different stripes,...

03/09/2016

http://ee.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/02/25/ee.nvw006.abstract

The invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, poses significant risk to organic farming systems because they rely on biological control, nonsynthetic inputs, and cultural tactics for pest management. This study evaluated the potential of five crop plants (sorghum, admiral pea, millet,…

03/09/2016

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/agricultures_wild_ways/

Five year study explores use of wildflowers to attract native bees to farms