by Phil Cable and Brian Clark, WSU CAHNRS and Extension Marketing, News, and Educational Communications Rylie Sedustine samples the fare. A diverse crowd of students and friends swarmed Ensminger Pavilion. Their purpose? To eat bugs at the annual Bug Buffet. Most of the students were from associate professor and entomology department chair Rich Zack’s entomology…
A team of WSU researchers and their wine-industry collaborators are the winners of the 2007 Integrated Pest Management Team Award. WSU Entomologist Doug Walsh discusses his team’s award-winning IPM strategy in a vineyard in Prosser, Wash. Photo: Brian Clark. The award is given each year to the team that successfully implements an integrated pest management…
March 2009 | WSU News HIPPOs, a novel strategy for improving the control of mites and insects in hops and grapes, is being developed by WSU associate professor of entomology David James. James and his research team are working on multiple field experiments with the potential to improve pest management, not only in hops and…
May 14, 2013 | WSU NEWS WSU researcher Ruth Henderson pours hops into a tank at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, Calif., as Abe Kabakoff, Sierra Nevada head pilot brewer, looks on. Photo courtesy: WSU News PROSSER, Wash. — In 1980, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. founder Ken Grossman effectively put the Cascade hop…
April 30, 2013 | NW Public Radio, by Tom Banse For about seven years, many Western beekeepers have been plagued by unexplained die-offs in their hives. It happened recently to Mark Emrich. “I was doing great until about five weeks ago,” he says. “Then I came down and opened up the hives and I had…