Entomology

Entomologist receives $1 million grant to research the impact of pesticides on bees

2018-07-27

Alexandra Harmon-Threatt will study neonicotinoids

Should we worry about ticks this summer?

2018-07-17

Check yourselves and your pets for ticks after spending time in wooded or grassy areas, says Illinois entomologist Brian Allan.

Bloodsucking, disease-spreading ticks on screen at 2018 Insect Fear Film Festival

2018-02-15

Ticks are the 2018 Insect Fear Film Festival theme, despite the fact that they are not insects but arachnids. Festival founder and entomology professor May Berenbaum chose ticks because, as global disease vectors, it is important for people to understand them.

Gene Robinson Awarded 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture

2018-02-13

IGB Director Gene Robinson has been awarded the 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for “leading the genomics revolution in the organismal and population biology of the honey bee.”

Agricultural fungicide attracts honey bees, study finds

2018-01-12

photo of two women and a ball with bees inside

Entomology professor May Berenbaum, left, and postdoctoral researcher Ling-Hsiu Liao found that honey bees have a slight preference for food laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil at certain concentrations.

Genomic study explores evolution of gentle ‘killer bees’ in Puerto Rico

2017-11-16

From left, Matthew Hudson, Arian Avalos, Gene Robinson and their colleagues found genomic signatures associated with the evolution of gentle behavior in Puerto Rico’s Africanized honey bees.

Cicada wings may inspire new surface technologies

2017-08-16

The wings of Megatibicen dorsatus, a prairie-dwelling cicada, are helping engineers design water-repellent surfaces.

Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, autism in humans

2017-07-31

Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds.

Team nebulizes aphids to knock down gene expression

2017-03-31

The soybean aphid is tiny, about the size of a pollen grain, but an infestation can cause soybean losses of up to 40 percent, studies reveal.

Study suggests commercial bumble bee industry amplified a fungal pathogen

2016-04-05

woman next to computer screen displaying a bee

Scientists hoping to explain widespread declines in wild bumble bee populations have conducted the first long-term genetic study of Nosema bombi, a key fungal pathogen of honey bees and bumble bees.

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