VT Entomology

Every year our new Entomology graduate students and two of our professors pile into a van and tour across Virginia for a few days. 🚐
The students had a blast and learned a lot about our state! On behalf of everyone in the Entomology Department, welcome to Virginia Tech!

Congrats to two of our students who won awards at the Southern Forest Insect Work Conference! 🎊

Carrie Preston earned an award for outstanding contributions to forest entomology by a graduate student, and Tim Shively won an award for an outstanding Ph.D. research presentation!

Have you ever wanted to learn what Hokie BugCamp is all about?

Check out this awesome video about camp this year! 🐞🐝

news.vt.edu/videos/k/2023/…

This weekend we held our annual Hokie BugCamp at Heritage Park in Blacksburg! 🐞

This year we had a total of 117 campers and their parents join us over three sessions. The campers had a blast exploring the park, bug hunting, and learning tons of cool things about entomology.

This week our department partnered with the Virginia Department of Forestry to host the 9th Annual Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Program Managers Meeting here at Virginia Tech. 🌲

It was a productive, educational, and fun meeting. We are looking forward to doing it again next year! 😁