UW-Madison Department of Entomology
The lab is currently celebrating the success of Mitchell Lannan, who recently defended his thesis on an attract and kill strategy for Japanese beetle management. Mitchell’s work demonstrated that by using pheromones to concentrate beetle populations before insecticide applications, grape growers can reduce their insecticide inputs by 97% while maintaining a similar level of Japanese …
We are excited to welcome new MS student, Mitchell Lannan, to the Fruit Crop team! He will be focusing on Attract-and-Kill strategies for managing the invasive Japanese Beetle in Wisconsin vineyards. We expect grape things from him! Check out his page here.
We are pleased to announce that Samuel DeGrey has officially submitted his thesis on the population genetics of cold-tolerance in Drosophila suzukii. While we are sad to see our friend and colleague move on, we know that he has an amazing career ahead of him. So here’s to you, congratulations Samuel!
Happy August from the Guédot Lab! Here is an update from the raspberry fields provided by our PhD student Hanna McIntosh: This has been a strange start to the field season with university shutdowns due to COVID-19 and the acceleration of movements for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd. In the midst …
The 2019-2020 academic year began with two new additions, a student and a study system, to the fruit crop entomology lab: Matt Hetherington joined the fruit team and began developing a project to improve sustainable management of the tarnished plant bug in strawberry. We are pleased to announce that this project was recently awarded a …