Entomology

In college competition, students condensed years of research into just a few minutes.

WSU scientists find keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make the practice of “queen banking” more stable and less labor-intensive.

Preserved for eternity, more than 3 million specimens await at the M.T. James Entomological Collection

In collaborative internships, visiting students explore wine science, entomology, fruit breeding, and engineering at IAREC.

WSU honey bee scientists have written a free Extension publication that will help beekeepers identify if honey bee colonies have been attacked by Asian giant hornet.

Latest guides help farmers, landowners, beekeepers, and food preparers improve practices.

WSU researcher finds western monarch butterflies can successfully breed and maintain populations on ornamental milkweeds during winter at urban sites in the South Bay of San Francisco.

New WSU research finds that a tiny bee imposter, the syrphid fly, may be a big help to some gardens and farms in Western Washington.

Prosser, WA – The grape mealybug has plagued Washington wine grape growers for decades. Researchers at Washington State University are launching a study with synthetic sex pheromones to disrupt mealybug mating—and, hopefully, the damage mealybugs…

A new fungus strain bred by WSU researchers could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees.