Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

News

Congrats to Rob! – April 5, 2012

Congrats to Rob for placing 2nd in the MSU Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium for his 10-min presentation on the asparagus miner degree day model!  Read More →


Grad Student Research Symposium at MSU – March 16, 2012

Alex and Rob will be giving 10-min research presentations in the student competition at the 10th Annual Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium on April 3, 2012 at MSU’s East Lansing Campus. Good luck to both of them!  Read More →


New publication – Feb. 16, 2012

The early view print of our article titled “Resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in field populations of the Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)” is now available at the website of Pest Management Science. Click here for the pdf file of the article.  Read More →


VegEnt in the news – Nov. 28, 2011

Our Colorado potato beetle insecticide monitoring work and issues related to increasing insecticide resistance is in the news, read the article at The Grower magazine or on this website under Extension>Publications>Potato.  Read More →


Student competition winner! – Nov. 16, 2011

Congratulations to Alex Bryant for placing 2nd at the 2011 Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, in the Grad Student Competition for the President’s Prize for her 10-minute oral presentation!    Read More →


New fact sheet – Nov. 14, 2011

Check out our new MSU fact sheet on ‘Caterpillar pests in cole crops’, on our website under the tabs ‘Extension > Publications > Cole crops’. This will be available free of charge at the Great Lakes Expo, Grand Rapids, MI, Dec. 6-8, 2011.  Read More →


Travel Awards to ESA 2011 – Oct. 5, 2011

Alex and Rob received the Hutson Funds from MSU to support their travel to and stay at the 2011 Entomology meeting in Reno, Nevada in November. Both grad students will be presenting 10-min oral presentations in the student competition on their 2011 results. Good luck!  Read More →


Extension meetings – summer 2011

Here are some of the extension events for this summer, where you can learn more about what we do: Consultant’s Breakfast, Hart, MI July 19, 7-8AM; Vegetable Twilight Meeting, Capac, MI, July 20, 6-9PM; Vegetable Twilight Meeting, Dundee, MI, July 26, 6-9PM; Potato Field Day, Montcalm, MI, August 11; Onion Twilight Meeting, Gun Lake Marsh, August 18, 6-9PM    Read More →


Postdoc travel award winner! – June 10, 2011

Congratulations to Diana Londono for receiving the MSU postdoc travel award! This will support her trip to the 2011 national entomology meeting in Reno, Nevada.  Read More →


New publication – June 2, 2011

The early print of our new publication on asparagus pest management by Morrison et al. in Crop Science is now available at https://www.crops.org/publications/cs/view/51-4/c11-01-0032.pdf.  Read More →