Department of Entomology

Corn Leaf Aphids Spark Mid-Season Scouting Concerns Across the Midwest A familiar late-season sight is showing up uncharacteristically early in Midwest cornfields, prompting a rush of aerial applications and raising questions among growers about whether chemical intervention is actually warranted. Dr. Christian Krupke, professor of entomology at

If you missed our first Moth Week event, you are in luck! We are partnering with NICHES Land Trust for another FREE Moth Week event. See you all at Clegg Memorial Garden this Friday at 8 PM. Follow the link below for more details!

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Come join us for Moth Week at Celery Bog! Lights on soon we will be here until 11 pm!

Purdue-Enveda effort seeks to control malaria-spreading mosquitoes Purdue University is leading a $1.7 million project funded by the Gates Foundation to develop new insecticides for combating malaria and other diseases using artificial intelligence and natural products. The three-year project will combine Purdue’s expertise in high-throughput screening of anti-mo...

Happy Pollinator Week!

Long before humans began cultivating crops, plants and pollinators were already working together, building one of nature’s most powerful and essential partnerships: pollination.

For millions of years, pollen has told the story of how plants reproduce, evolve and sustain ecosystems. Today, plant-pollinator relationships still power global biodiversity, helping produce much of the food we eat and keeping our environment thriving.

Researchers in the Department of Entomology and Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology continue to study how these ancient partnerships shape modern agriculture and the environment around us.

Learn more about how pollination influences our food systems and ecosystems: https://ag.purdue.edu/news/2025/07/pollen-pollination-how-ancient-partnerships-shape-todays-world.html

Recommended Indiana-native Plants for Protecting Pollinators This publication provides a list of plants that can be used to establish effective pollinator habitats, from backyard gardens to large-scale plantings.