Congratulations to our new Department Chair, Dr. Andrew Short! The Entomology and Nematology Department welcomes you and looks forward to a long and successful future together. #UFBugs

The 3rd dissertation chapter published - Congratulations Rachel!

Mining the undetermined bostricids at the Bishop Museum turns up scolytine treasures! Sarah Smith, MSU Entomology

A great opportunity to earn a Ph.D. in an intellectually invigorating research environment working on amazing beetles.

Some boring art I recently completed 🪵🪲 I call it"tragedy of the trees, beauty of a beetle", a reminder of what devastations to landscapes human-mediated disturbances can cause but also illustrates the beauty in the beetle itself and the unseen aspects of it's life.

Who buys packing peanuts, anyway? Aren't they just reused from one loan to the next since the beginning of time?

Come join us for a celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday and science at the MSU Museum this weekend!

Collecting arthropods in Michigan in February- spring is so far away!

Making the best of a sad day.

Bad news for #walnut trees 😢 First report of #ThousandCankersDisease caused by the fungus #Geosmithia morbida and its vector Pityophthorus juglandis on Juglans regia in France (Lyon) doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.1…

Bark and ambrosia beetles (scolytines) hate ants. And rightly so given ants love to eat them.

Happy graduate student appreciation week! I am grateful for and appreciate the graduate students of Michigan State University's Entomology Department. Their zest for insect science creates a fun and inspiring academic environment. MSU Entomology

The first week of our next expedition to SW Mongolia (Trans-Altai Gobi) has passed! We have reached the unique, one of the last oases in the Gobi Desert, likely as the first Poles and the first entomologists in 30 years! What a unique area and an honor!!

Our book chapter on #BarkBeetles is out as part of the new book Forest Entomology and Pathology Volume 1. Download it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #ForestHealth #Entomology 🔥🌲👌🏼

#LiteratureNotice Jordal. Glostatina, a new xyloctonine subtribe for Glostatus (#Coleoptera: #Curculionidae), based on clear genetic and morphological differences doi.org/10.14411/eje.2… #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils #BarkBeetles #Taxonomy

Introducing an additional gene for DNA identification of beetles.

How about this, Anthony Cognato Sarah Smith ? Ips typographus and I. acuminatus. The biggest I've ever seen - 1 larva per trunk. There are really nutritious spruces and pines in Poland! 😏

Are only non-native ambrosia beetles being introduced outside their native range or can we also talk about native-alien populations? doi.org/10.1016/j.aspe… researchgate.net/publication/37… #invasivespecies #beetles #entomology #coleoptera #monitoring #insects

Come join us at MSU Entomology MSU CANR and be our newest colleague! Search chair is Anthony Cognato