MSU entomologist Dave Smitley describes ongoing research on Japanese beetles during the 2011 Turfgrass Field Day.


Read our faculty insect pest updates for agriculture as well as gardening and the Green Industry at: news.msue.msu.edu.

Services and programs

• Diagnostic Services: A lab offering plant health and pest diagnostics.
• Enviro-weather: Weather-based pest, natural resource and production management tools.
• Integrated Pest Management. (IPM)
  
• MSU Extension News: Pests, crops and more.
• MSU Extension
  
• MSU Extension Bookstore
• Museum - Cook Arthropod Research Collection
• Pesticide Safety Education Program: Resources for pesticide applicators.
• Resistance Pest Management.
• Trevor Nichols Research Complex.
• USDA North Central Pest Management Center.

 
Insect-specific Web sites

• Bees
• Brown marmorated stink bug
• Emerald ash borer
  
• Multicolored Asian lady beetles
• Spotted wing drosophila

 
Home and yard

• Gardening in MIchigan
• IPM at your house: What can you do?
• Landscape Alert Newsletter.
• Lawn Grubs: What works and what doesn't.
• What's Bugging You? Easy and entertaining reading regarding common home insect pests and problems.

 
Insects and crops

• Apples: Great apples in Michigan and beyond.
• Blueberries: Blueberry IPM, Michigan blueberry facts.
• Cherries: Cherry IPM, Michigan cherry facts.
• Grapes: Integrated vineyard management.
• MSU Extension News
  
• Orchard Functional Ecology: Developing measures of sustainability from IPM.
• Organic Fruit Research and Extension.
• Small Fruit Entomology.
• Tart Cherry Integrated Orchard Management Project.
• Tree Fruit Entomology Program.
• Vegetable entomology
  

 
Biological control

• Biological control of purple loosestrife.
• Enhancing Biological Control and Pollination by growing native plants

 
Other Web sites of interest by MSU entomologists

• Center for Global Change and Earth Observations.
• Computational Ecology and Visualization Laboratory.
• Garlic mustard: Managing this invasive weed.
• Organic Agriculture: MSU Organic Pest Management.