PhD Assistantship for Integrated Pest Management on Hops Posted 11/25/2014 The Department of Entomology at Washington State University is offering a new graduate research assistantships for candidates interested in pursuing a PhD in Entomology starting as soon as January 1, 2015. This assistantship will offer full support for 4 years based upon a recently awarded…
Richard S. Zack, associate professor of entomology and director of the M.T. James entomological collection, earned the 2010-2011 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction. He is best known for his creativity and energy in teaching one of the most popular undergraduate courses at WSU Entomology 101: Insects & People. It is a general education option…
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Entomology in Human Health Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Instructor: R.S. Zack An Insect’s Eye View of the Course Elephants are always drawn smaller than life, but a flea always larger. – Dean Swift “What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where you come from? ” the Gnat inquired. “I don’t rejoice in insects at…
Insects and People: A Perspective Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Instructor: R.S. Zack Texts: Hoyt, E. and T. Schultz (eds). 2002. Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World. 2002. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 360 pp. Borror, D.J. and R.E. White 1970. A Field Guide to the Insects. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.…
Fundamentals of Beekeeping (Beekeeping Lab) Credits: 1 Prerequisites: ENTOM 361 Instructor: W.S. Sheppard Text: None. OBJECTIVES OF COURSE To provide the student with practical, hands-on experience in beekeeping. LABORATORY OUTLINE Number of Periods & Topic 1 Safe handling of honey bees, equipment setup, installation of honey bees 1 Colony inspection, population growth, nutritional requirements…
Honey Bee Biology (Beekeeping) Credits:1 Prerequisites: None. Instructor: W. S. Sheppard Text: The Hive and the Honey Bee, Ed. Dadant and Sons, eds. Hamilton, IL 1992. OBJECTIVES OF COURSE To acquaint students with the insect sociality and its role in development of biological theory (kin selection, sociobiology, superorganism). To provide students with specific knowledge about…
New tree fruit pest meets its match CAHNRS, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 WENATCHEE, Wash. – In the course of a single year, a tiny insect has been damaging tree fruit around the globe. Spotted wing drosophila, or SWD, a type of vinegar or fruit fly, has been known in Japan, its home turf, for decades.…
CAHNRS Connections Magazine 2011, by Kacie McPartland, MNEC intern New research conducted at WSU is the first to demonstrate the sub-lethal effects of pesticide residue exposure on an insect largely responsible for a third of the human diet. Judy Wu, a former entomology graduate student at WSU and current Ph.D. student at the University of…