A UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment entomologist is closing in on a pest management strategy that could give landowners, cities and forest managers a highly targeted alternative to conventional insecticides.
Recent findings by researchers at UK may help scientists better understand how the New World screwworm recognizes mates and could provide leads for future monitoring and control methods.
UK researchers and students are studying tick ecology in Kentucky, testing innovative surveillance tools to track species, disease risk and land-use impacts.
At the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), the Department of Entomology is studying a newly arrived pest affecting turfgrasses commonly found at golf courses.
Brian Stevenson has secured grants to study and disrupt Lyme disease bacteria by exploiting their internal viruses, aiming to develop innovative treatments for tick-borne illnesses.
Subba Reddy Palli, who is internationally recognized for his research on RNA interference technology that kills insect pests and fights insecticide resistance, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
A global research team led by researchers from the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has found that Antarctica’s only native insect is already ingesting microplastics, even in one of the planet’s most remote regions.
A UK-led research team has received a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Healthy Homes Technical Study award to develop a complete and durable approach to cockroach control in affordable housing.
