News
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New pesticide decision website for apple and peach growers
Published on August 26, 2026
The free “MI Fruit Decision” website now contains decision making tools for peach and apple growers to improve pest management programs using data from many years of MSU pesticide efficacy trials. -
Fast Fonz Facts: Dectes discovery, earworms increasing
Published on August 20, 2026
Fast Fonz Facts outlining a new insect discovery and earworm trapping. -
Register for the Pesticide Core Review Training at GLEXPO 2026
Published on August 19, 2026
Registration is open for the Pesticide Core Review Training and MDARD RUP test, offered in English and Spanish, at the Great Lakes Expo on December 10. Participants can also earn RUP credits. Don’t miss this opportunity! -
Community Voice: Dr. J. Mark Scriber
Published on August 10, 2026
Chairperson Emeritus Dr. J. Mark Scriber shares what inspired him and his wife, Kathy, to make their most recent gift in support of the MSU Department of Entomology.
Events
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Aug 29
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Aug 30
Bee Palooza 2026
August 30, 2026 1:00PM – 4:00PM MSU Horticulture Gardens, 1066 Bogue St. East Lansing

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/