The news!!


9/6/2024

Our research on BYDV management has just received support from USDA-NIFA! More on VT News.

5/3/2024

Thanks to Dr. James Wilson for giving us a tour of The Bee Lab! If you wonder what a honey bee queen looks like, she can be found in the middle of the top photo surrounded by the workers (mostly).

Congrats, Eli! We wish you all the best!

5/2/2024

Congratulations to Atoosa for becoming Dr. Nikoukar! Go team Entomology!

1/18/2024

Virginia Tech researchers help answer an urgent call for native seeds in Southside Virginia

Assistant Professor Leighton Reid stands in the middle of a tall, grassy field, writing on a clipboard.

9/14/2023

Eli Hoar has just uploaded a note on peanut burrower bugs in Virginia to the Virginia Ag Pest and Crop Advisory network!

9/9/2023

Family and Farm Day at the Southern Piedmont AREC!

7/27/2023

Entomology team presented at the Southern Piedmont Field Day 2023. Do not miss this event next year!

7/24/2023

SPAREC Entomology showed up at the Big Bug Event in Dinwiddie!

7/12/23

Eli Hoar just presented his research at the American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting in Georgia!

6/30/23

What a record! Congratulations to Eli Hoar and Usha Panta for co-winning the 2023 James M. Grayson Scholarship, and Shirin Parizad for winning the 2023 Loke and Vicki Kok Graduate Fellowship!

6/29/23

Time to fly tobacco fields for early pest detection!

6/27/23

And the harvest/data collection continues….

6/23/23

Wrapping up an experiment is fun (and lots of work)!

6/21/2023

Just ready to cage plants in the second field!

06/07/2023

We now have a PhD Candidate- Congratulations to Atoosa for passing her qualifying exam!

06/05/2023

Dr. Sanford Eigenbrode and I have been working on editing a book (and publishing a few chapters within) for the past couple of years. I am pleased to see it is finally out! https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/workgroup/3-190-109538