Department of Entomology

Bee Team tends bee hives in soybean fields to measure colony growth in agroecosystems.

Recent News

Insectary to be razed later this year

January 23, 2020

Coats Awarded Distinguished Title

September 16, 2019

2019 Curtiss League Kick-Off highlights conservation

April 9, 2019

ISU Entomology representatives attend Entomological Society of America meeting in Cincinatti, OH

March 29, 2019

In Memoriam: Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Dahm

March 7, 2019

Upcoming Events

View the Spring 2020 Seminar Series

Seminar: Novel insights into a well-studied steroid hormone: the impacts of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) on mosquito immunity.

Monday, February 3, 2020 - 4:10pm
Seminar: Big Solar: wildlife sanctuaries, industrial blights, or next-gen agriculture?

Monday, February 10, 2020 - 4:10pm
Seminar: Beetles, wasps, mites, and worms: How parasite ecology improves estimates of - and foments arguments about - global animal species richness.

Monday, February 17, 2020 - 4:10pm
Seminar: Prairie strips, a new habitat conservation practice to improve honey bee nutritional health.

Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:10pm
Seminar: The chorus of underwater chirps, squeaks and croaks; aquatic insects and the application of bioacoustics for detection and identification.

Monday, March 2, 2020 - 4:10pm

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