His Toyota Prius loaded with tiny wasps, Josh Milnes is about to make life very difficult for an invasive stink bug threatening Washington fruit growers. “The brown marmorated stink bug isn’t supposed to be in Washington,” explains Milnes, entomology student at the WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee. Native to eastern […]
A recent upsurge of dirty, rotten, no-good brown marmorated stink bugs in the Pacific Northwest has WSU researchers scrambling to keep the insect’s numbers from exploding.
Beyond Biofuel: Expanding the Possibilities from Algae Extraction The potential value of an industry based on extracting fuel from algae could be even greater than expected by adding dietary supplements such as DHA and lutein to its list of products. Shulin Chen, professor in the WSU Department of Biological Systems Engineering, presented this innovative idea […]