Call for 2015 YouTube Contest Videos
Annapolis, MD; May 5, 2014 – ESA has begun accepting entries for the 2015 YouTube Your Entomology Video Contest. This contest gives ESA members the opportunity to showcase their talents and creativity through video.
This year all video entries will be judged against each other with no distinct categories. A winner and runner-up will be chosen from among the submitted entries.
Videos will be rated on picture quality, sound quality, creativity, and entomological accuracy.
The rules for this year's contest are:
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Source: ESA News - May 5, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
A New Profile of the Asian Longhorned Beetle
Annapolis, MD; April 15, 2015 -- The Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, is a wood-boring insect that is capable of destroying 30% of the urban trees in the United States at an economic loss of $669 billion. Infestations of this invasive beetle have been found in Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Illinois, and they have been shown to feed on more than 100 different tree species, with a preference for maples, poplars, aspens, cottonwoods, and willows.
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Source: ESA News - April 16, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Researchers Find New Mesoamerican Pine Beetle
Annapolis, MD; April 15, 2015 -- A newly-discovered species of tree-killing bark beetle, Dendroctonus mesoamericanus Armendáriz-Toledano and Sullivan, has been described in a paper published online in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America by a group of researchers that includes a U.S. Forest Service scientist.
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Source: ESA News - April 15, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Joe Louis Receives Young Investigator Award
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Source: ESA News - April 9, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Members in the News Source Type: research
Bed Bug Fecundity Reduced by ActiveGuard
Annapolis, MD; April 1, 2015 -- Products that claim to control bed bugs have been on the market for years. Some work, and some don’t.
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Source: ESA News - April 1, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Tom Baker to Deliver 2015 Founders' Memorial Lecture
Annapolis, MD; March 18, 2015 -- Dr. Thomas C. Baker, a distinguished professor of entomology and chemical ecology at Penn State University, has been selected to deliver the Founders’ Memorial Award lecture at Entomology 2015, the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) to be held November 15-18, 2015 in Minneapolis.
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Source: ESA News - March 18, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
New Tick Species Found at USNTC
Annapolis, MD: March 9, 2015 -- A new tick species found in Malaysia and Vietnam was recently discovered by researchers in Georgia.
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Source: ESA News - March 10, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
ESA's Eastern Branch Meeting in Rehoboth, DE
Annapolis, MD: March 9, 2015 -- Hundreds of insect scientists and students will be in Rehoboth, DE on March 14-17, 2015 to attend the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America's Eastern Branch at the Atlantic Sands Hotel (1 Baltimore Avenue, on the boardwalk).
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Source: ESA News - March 9, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Phyllis Weintraub Welcomed as JIS Editor-in-Chief
Annapolis, MD: March 4, 2015 -- The Governing Board of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) recently appointed Dr. Phyllis Weintraub as the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Insect Science (JIS), an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers on all aspects of the biology of insects and other arthropods -- from the molecular to the ecological -- as well as their agricultural and medical impacts.
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Source: ESA News - March 4, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Oriental Rat Fleas Found on NYC Rats
Annapolis, MD: March 3, 2015 -- In the first study of its kind since the 1920s, rats in New York City were found to carry Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), which are capable of transmitting pathogens that cause bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death. The study is published in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
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Source: ESA News - March 3, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
JIPM Offers Resource Against Rice Water Weevil
The rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus, is the most harmful insect pest of rice in the United States, causing yield losses of up to 25 percent. Adults inflict damage by consuming leaf tissue, and the larvae feed on the roots of rice plants. A native of the southeastern U.S., the rice water weevil invaded Japan in 1976, Korea in 1980, China in 1988, and Italy in 2004.
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Source: ESA News - February 10, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Call for 2016 Insect Calendar Photos
ESA is looking for outstanding insect photos to grace our “World of Insects 2016 Calendar.” Photos should be of the highest aesthetic and technical quality. Photographs for the calendar will be selected by the ESA Committee on the World of Insects Calendar. The requirements for submission of photos for the purposes of judging are:
1. JPG format (no more than 3000 pixels wide);
2. Common or scientific name must be included in each filename;
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Source: ESA News - February 4, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Area-Wide Management a Must for Asian Citrus Psyllid
Annapolis, MD: February 2, 2015 -- The Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) carries a bacterial pathogen that causes citrus greening disease (huanglongbing), which is destroying trees in many countries and states, including Florida. It’s been estimated that this insect-disease combination has cost Florida’s citrus industry $1.3 billion in losses. The situation has become so bad that some citrus growers have abandoned their fields, leaving their trees untended, which can have dire consequences for neighboring growers.
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Source: ESA News - February 3, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Scorpionflies and Caterpillars in Forensic Entomology
Annapolis, MD: January 22, 2015 -- Fans of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and similar TV shows know that forensic entomology involves the use of insects and other arthropods in legal matters, including homicide cases. Entomologists who are properly trained can find clues about a corpse -- for example, time of death and whether a body has been moved -- by observing the insects on and around it.
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Source: ESA News - January 22, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
Are Asian Citrus Psyllids Afraid of Heights?
The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, was first discovered in Florida in 2005 and in Puerto Rico in 2007. Since then it has caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage by spreading a bacterium which is responsible for citrus greening disease (Huanglongbing), the most serious disease of citrus in the world. However, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Puerto Rico and Florida have discovered that the ACP doesn’t do well at high elevations for reasons that are not yet known.
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Source: ESA News - January 20, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: rlevine Tags: Press Releases Source Type: research
