2020-06-04
- As Brood IX takes flight for the first time in 17 years,
cicada lovers have their ears open.
Around this time of year,
Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has collected cicadas, those...
2020-06-03 - Silver bullet or jumping the gun? This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S. within the states of Florida and Texas. On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release...
2020-06-01 - Dear SIB Community, At the end of May, 2020, Chancellor Jones sent out an email with a powerful message of unity for this campus - we must come together and care for one another. He reminds us that the University of Illinois is a "community committed to the scholarship, engagement, equity, inclusion and leadership that dismantles...
2020-05-26 - James O’Dwyer has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an...
2020-05-12 - For the second year, University of Illinois Extension is calling all lovers of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators that keep our crops and gardens growing to join scientists in tracking their distribution and habitat use across the state.
2020-04-29 - Lisa Ainsworth, a research plant physiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and adjunct professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois, has been...
2020-04-28 - Carl Bernacchi honored for contributions in education and research
2020-04-28 - Entomology professor Adam Dolezal and his colleagues found that infection with the Israeli acute paralysis virus increases the likelihood that infected bees are accepted by foreign colonies.
2020-04-18 - Deadline for submissions: 12:00 noon, Thursday, May 7, 2020
2020-03-31 - This is the story of three bird species and how they interact. The brown-headed cowbird plays the role of outlaw: It lays its eggs in other birds’ nests and lets them raise its young – often at the expense of the host’s nestlings. To combat this threat, yellow warblers have developed a special “seet” call that means, “Look out! Cowbird!” In a new study, researchers...
2020-03-12 - Brendan Morris discovered a new genus and species of treehopper. He named it in honor of the musical artist Lady Gaga.
2020-03-09 - How I shaped my unique journey at Illinois Abby Knipp is a recent graduate of the College of LAS, where she studied Spanish, earth, society, & environmental sustainability (ESES), and integrative biology. Who would’ve thought that a girl from cold, northern Minnesota, far from any body of salt-water and who had never even stepped foot into the ocean would decide to...
2020-02-26 - Dr. Esther Ngumbi (Entomology) reports on outbreaks of insect pests and insect invasions are on the rise on the African continent.
2020-02-12 - Professor of plant biology and crop sciences receives one of U of I's highest honors University of Illinois professor Stephen Long, a renowned researcher known particularly for his work in photosynthesis and addressing food insecurity, has been named an Ikenberry Endowed University Chair of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences.
2020-02-07 - Researchers sequenced the genome of the orangethroat darter, pictured, and compared it with that of the rainbow darter, a closely related species. They also hybridized the two species to determine the factors that drive them to diverge.