Orchid bees
Tribe Euglossini
Photo: Tony Shen
Burying beetle
Nicrophorus orbicollis
Photo: Tony Shen
Stingless bees
Tetragonisca angustula
Photo: Tony Shen
Giant mayfly
Hexagenia limbata
Photo: Tony Shen
Rusty patched bumble bee
Bombus affinis
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Goldenrod soldier beetle
Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
Photo: Tony Shen
Colorado potato beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Photo: Ben Bradford
Common blue damselfly
Enallagma cyathigerum
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Valley carpenter bee
Xylocopa sonorina
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Spongy moth
Lymantria dispar
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Honeybee
Apis mellifera
Photo: Ben Bradford
Mining bee
Andrena sp.
Photo: Ben Bradford
Squash vine borer
Melittia cucurbitae
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Bumblebee mimic robber fly
Laphria thoracica
Photo: Jeremy Hemberger
Welcome to the Department of Entomology!
The Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is a world-class graduate training and research institution committed to advancing research in insect biology in both basic and applied contexts. We offer MS and Ph.D. degrees in Entomology and two undergraduate majors (Entomology & Global Health). Our faculty and staff members along with our graduate students, postdoctoral associates, affiliated and emeritus professors offer a dynamic and interdisciplinary research and teaching environment to prepare students for a future in entomology.
The Department is housed in Russell Laboratories and makes extensive use of campus greenhouse facilities and the agricultural research stations located throughout the state for research, outreach and educational purposes. Russell Labs houses three departments: Entomology, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and Plant Pathology. The building is centrally located on the UW-Madison campus making it ideal for collaborative work with other departments.
Values such as inclusion, integrity, community, and respect are an integral part of department culture and official code of conduct.
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2022 Undergraduate Academic Award Recipients
The Department of Entomology would like to recognize undergraduate students Emelia Rogers, Madalyn Laskowski, and Melissa Langkilde for receiving 2022-2023 Undergraduate Research Fellowships! Melissa, working with Dr. Amy Trowbridge, and Madalyn, working with Dr. James Crall, each received the Holstrom Environmental Research Fellowship, and Emelia, working with Dr. Sean Schoville, received the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research…
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CDC renews funding for the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-borne Disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that funding for the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-borne Disease will be renewed for another 5 years. Drs. Susan Paskewitz (Entomology) and Lyric Bartholomay (Pathobiological Sciences) will co-direct the $10M Center. The MCE-VBD is a regional organization centered at UW Madison with partners in Minnesota,…
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Entomology Digest – Summer 2022
Letter from the Chair Entomology Community and Friends of the Department, “New faces and Congratulations” We are fortunate to welcome Dr. Emily Bick as new Assistant Professor in Entomology and beginning this summer 2022. Dr. Bick is titled as a Precision Pest Ecologist & Field Crops Extension Entomologist, and her program will solidify a core…
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Land Acknowledgement Workshop & Resources
This series was hosted by the Entomology and Horticulture DEI committees, represented by Hanna McIntosh, Amaya Atucha, Beth Workmaster, Christelle Guédot, Claudia Calderon, Guolong Liang, Linda Crubaugh, Skye Harnsberger, and Willow Lovecky. Information about the workshops as well as recordings and select resources for further exploration of this topic have been compiled by the committees and…
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Congratulations to Entomology’s 2022 PhD Graduates!
The Entomology Department proudly recognizes two newly minted graduates, Dr. Erin Lowe and Dr. Yi-Ming Weng! Dr. Erin Lowe A big congratulations to Dr. Erin Lowe of the Gratton Lab, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 11, 2022. Erin’s thesis exemplified agroecological research and Erin’s interdisciplinarity. She studied on-farm strategies for bee conservation in…
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We focus on high-impact science that leverages our collective expertise on arthropod biology to solve problems in agriculture, the environment, and human health.