News
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From Thailand to East Lansing: 12,000 Beetles Join MSU’s Arthropod Collection
Published on September 30, 2025
MSU entomologists Anthony Cognato and Sarah Smith traveled to Thailand to secure 12,000 bark beetle specimens, expanding the university’s scolytine and platypodine collection to more than 2,200 species– the most speciose in the Western Hemisphere. -
Trevor Nichols Research Center hosts final 2025 field day
Published on September 30, 2025
On Sept. 25, the Trevor Nichols Research Center hosted the final field day of the 2025 season, where faculty and staff shared research and strategies on managing fruit crop pests and diseases. -
Fellowship Focus: Entomology fellowship leads Amelia McGinnis to graduate school at CANR
Published on September 29, 2025
Discovering her passion for research as an undergraduate Lansing Community College student through the Entomology Research and Outreach Fellowship, Amelia McGinnis is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Entomology. -
Second Edition of Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and their Applications co-authored by MSU Entomology Professor
Published on September 24, 2025
The new edition expands on the 2015 volume with added research, nine chapters and global contributions, including work by MSU’s Dr. Eric Benbow.
Events
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Oct 13
October 2025 Monday Night Open House
October 13, 2025 5:30PM – 7:30PM MSU Bug House, Room 147 Natural Science Building
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Oct 18
2025 Insects in the Classroom Workshop
October 18, 2025 1:00PM – 4:00PM MSU Bug House, Room 147 Natural Science
Cultivating a welcoming community within the Department
MSU Entomology aims to foster an accessible and supportive community for all members. Learn more about our commitment to a vibrant, open and welcoming culture here.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We collectively acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
Link to the Land Acknowledgment information from AIIS: https://aiis.msu.edu/land/