Dr. Mike Reinke presenting during the Viticulture Day drone show at SWMREC #extension #grape

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪Thanks to Dr. Maxime Eeraerts for leading this study, and ALL the coauthors for their contributions🐝🫐🐝🫐🐝🫐

𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓? We are so happy to announce Bee Palooza 2025! Join us on Aug. 24th from 1-4pm. We will also be posting weekly with sneak peaks of our event and information in case you cant make it!

After the rain.

🧪Early morning departure, to take these tiny pest-killing wasps out to farms for release #biocontrol

Some days, research is about getting the right plastic box for your study. This is one of those days.

Berry trial assessment day - untreated vs treated🍓

From the manual: "This machine...is the answer to every Entomologist's dream"

link.springer.com/article/10.1... New review of Leptopilina japonica's potential for SWD biocontrol, led by Dr. Rossi-Stacconi🇮🇹

🐝🥵🫐 www.canr.msu.edu/news/extreme...

A beautiful day for learning all about 💮+🐝=🫐 with the MSU Blueberry Team.

The home of The Very Handy Bee Manual is on the chopping block. It must 🐝 saved!

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Could? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

The excellent farm crew planted 5 acres of tart cherry and apple trees today 🍒🍏 These will support future entomology studies to address insect pests issue 🐛🪲 Thanks to Michigan Tree Fruit Commission for making this possible!💰

It's 70 degrees in April, so we are Go Green, Go White! for orchard pollination at the Trevor Nichols Research Center @msu-entomology.bsky.social

www.vineyardundergroundpodcast.com/vu069/ Check out this podcast about insect pests and beneficials, with Fritz Westover from Vineyard Underground.

Extreme heat conditions in spring disrupt 🫐 pollen physiology and 🐝 development, as shown in this new study from @msu-entomology.bsky.social alumna Dr. Jenna Walters, collaborating with colleagues in the MSU Plant Resilience Institute www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A perfect bluesky day for pruning blueberries 🫐

70 degrees yesterday 🍏

As a collaborator with UMaine, this funding lockdown affects Michigan too #MI07

Field Season 2025 is on!

Spring is springing in The 517

Blue sky over San Diego, heading home from the International IPM Symposium.

As dismissals and program closures mount at agencies like the USDA-ARS, ripple effects will include more pests in fields, fewer pollinators, rising food costs, and more invasive species. Learn more in part one of a new series on impacts of cuts to federal funding for insect science. buff.ly/tzR2Ta7

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

Stand up for the future of science, and scientists. Please share!

Summer research+mentoring program deadline coming up!

One of the 2015 book editors, Willye Bryan, is now a community leader in her "retirement", and has the cover story in our local newspaper this week. www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/the-...

Our lab, while the insects are sleeping. 📷 @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Full open-access article "Synergy as a strategy to strengthen biomedical mentoring ecosystems" with @joimondisa.bsky.social & @beckypackard.bsky.social now available. Meaningful work with thoughtful, empathetic colleagues is a beacon of hope in troubling times. www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

First BMSB of 2025 has emerged for Invasive Species Week. Spring is coming!

Read while you still can. www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...

👋🐝 We are saying goodbye to 20 years of bee specimens, as they head to the AJ Cook Arthropod Research Collection. These will help scientists understand bee taxonomy, ecology, and change for years to come. 🧪

Check out @ucsusa.bsky.social "Save Science, Save Lives" letter. It's for individual signatures, but prob of interest to your sci societies members! secure.ucsusa.org/a/2024-save-...

That was a GREAT department seminar by @bug-gwen.bsky.social all about science communication in These Times. So relevant to our outreach and extension work, and how we connect with audiences.

Fun times at Birchfield Park today, with first time tubing for 🇦🇺 postdoc Blake Dawson.

Join Us! MSU Extension seeks an IPM Educator based in Kent County, focused on the tree fruit industry. Posting #1017305 at careers.msu.edu

It's extension season, today learning some grape disease control info from Dr. Tim Miles.

New report from visiting scientist Dr. Marwa Aly, reporting on using diet for rearing samba wasp on SWD academic-oup-com.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/aesa/advance...

👀 "...it is time to reevaluate how we estimate pesticide compatibility with natural enemies"

Lab socials moved here from there. Follow for updates on our research and extension projects.

Wonderful to see the layers of research that continue to develop from Project ICP and the plantings established under that grant.

Hello world! 🧪 We are a team of entomologists studying bugs in berry farms. Find out more at www.isaacslab.ent.msu.edu