EntSoc - Eastern Branch

Calling all Eastern Branch Early Career Professionals (ECPs)! Are you interested in increasing your service to ESA, advocating for your fellow ECPs, and building valuable networks? The ECP committee is looking for a new vice chair and communication coordinator. Come join us!

Great to see so many eastern branchers at Entsoc23 🦋🐞🪲

And that’s a wrap! #EntSoc23 had a lot of great talks, great people, and great views.

Just updated: Download our massive database of postdoctoral fellowships (316!) For each fellowship, we provide a description, link, $ amount, eligibility criteria, and deadline. download this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Brian is a great mentor, and I have so much fun working in his program!

We welcome all ECPs to join us in sharing experiences and building networks. Send an email to pl484@cornell.edu if you’re interested!

Calling for all early career professionals in the eastern branch! The ECP committee is proposing a symposium “From Larva to leader: bringing focus to the unseen through Early Career Professionals’ journeys” at the eastern branch meeting in March 2024. Find out more in the flyer!

It's National Mosquito Control Awareness Week! You can learn more about mosquitoes, where they live, and how to prevent bites on the CDC Mosquitoes Website! cdc.gov/mosquitoes/ind…

Have you heard the buzz? In the U.S., bee pollination adds $18 billion to agricultural crop value every year. Could we BEE anymore grateful? Learn how you can identify and help Virginia's native #bees! 🐝 👇 pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/pubs_e… #PollinatorWeek #Pollinators #NativeBees #Bee

This #PrideMonth, it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influential such persons in early America. An abolitionist minister known as The Public Universal Friend. 1/

It's #waspyWednesday or #weevilwednesday (didn't have a wacky weevil 2 share) 🫛🌻🪲🦟

The @PIE_Entsoc field tour series returned in May '22, convening experts and practitioners from research, industry, and government focused on insect biological control, w/ in-person demos and discussions featuring the Washington state tree fruit industry. entomologytoday.org/2023/06/28/fru…

EntoQuest comm is looking for people to lead workshops at this year's EntoQuest Sept 15-17 in Lewes, DE. Workshops can range from photography, art, media, insect ID and more. See the flyer 4 more info! 2022 highlights:youtu.be/818p7GWlhUw @EntsocAmerica

Arthropod Photo of the Week: June 21, 2023 Grass-carrying wasp Isodontia elegans Hymenoptera: Sphecidae By Mark VanderWerp, BCE, Michigan, USA #arthropodPOTW

I always get such a kick from seeing Gasteruptiid wasps! They seem to love Golden Alexander, as its the only flower I've seen them on. . 📷 Canon 100mm with flash & #cygnustech diffuser + Raynox 250. Single shots. . #pollinatorweek2023 #pollinators #wasp #entomology

🎶Rosa, Rosa, la maravillosa...🎶 En el posteo de hoy, la Dra. Rane nos explica cómo reconocer y manejar la enfermedad de la roseta de la rosa en #rosales de jardín. @UMD_AGNR @UMDEntomology @UMdExtension @UMDscience @UMDHGIC extensionesp.umd.edu/2023/06/05/la-…

¿Cómo saber qué especies existen en el lugar donde uno está?🦋🌹🐦 En el posteo de hoy @analyssi nos presenta una herramienta gratuita al alcance de todos que nos ayuda con esto y mucho más. @UMDscience @UMD_AGNR @UMDEntomology @UMdExtension @inaturalist extensionesp.umd.edu/2023/06/12/ina…

Happy #PollinatorWeek 2023! Wasps are well known biological control agents of many pests, however they are also important #pollinators 🌻🦋🪰 here is a Scoliidae visiting a black eyed Susan