Entomology
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  • Aug 14 2024

UK alumna Amanda Skidmore stepped into her new role as state apiarist for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in April 2024.

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  • Jul 26 2024

The Gatton Foundation Professorship are funded through The Bill Gatton Foundation’s historic $100 million gift.

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  • Jul 20 2021

A native of east Asia, the moth is a serious invasive insect and continues to spread. University of Kentucky entomologists and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are asking Kentuckians to monitor their boxwoods and report any damage.

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  • Jul 16 2020

“In our study, Polistes dominula was the most common wasp seen hunting caterpillars in Central Kentucky gardens. We think it may be a game-changer for urban monarch conservation."

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  • Jun 30 2020

Recently, Asian needle ants invaded a home in south central Kentucky and stung the homeowner. This is one of the state’s first reports of the ants coming indoors. The insect has been in Kentucky since at least 2013 and in the U.S. since the 1930s.

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  • May 7 2020

“So far, there have been no findings in North America outside of the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some similar looking insects in Kentucky that could cause people to think they have seen one.”

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  • Aug 2 2019

An international team of researchers led by the University of Kentucky’s Nick Teets has received more than $700,000 from the National Science Foundation to study midges in Antarctica.

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  • Aug 31 2018

UK entomologists have identified what could be a major threat to the health of the monarch butterfly population.

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  • Aug 2 2018

Researchers in UK's Department of Entomology may be one step closer to controlling the harmful impacts of insect pests.

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  • Nov 7 2017

You may not think of insects when you think of Antarctica, but a pair of UK researchers are working on exactly that.