Tag: Uganda

Building a Better Grasshopper Trap: New Design Offers Safer, More Efficient Harvest

In Uganda and neighboring African nations, wild grasshoppers are a delicacy and are commonly harvested for their use as food. A team of researchers has designed a new trap that improves on the traditional model by reducing nontarget bycatch, energy consumption, and use of hazardous materials.

Entomology Today March 19, 2021 4 Comments

Two Insects Lead the Fight Against Destructive Invasive Weed—But There’s Still More to Be Done

A biocontrol program deploying a leaf-feeding beetle and a stem-boring weevil in eastern Africa against the invasive weed Parthenium hysterophorus is proving successful and is set to become a key component of integrated pest management programs to control the weed.

Tick Collector: Expecting the Unexpected on an Undergraduate Tropical Field Course

By Dr. Zen Lewis I was very interested to read the EntomologyToday.org blog post about Tony Goldberg’s tick experience in Kibale, in which he found a new tick species in […]

Scientist Finds Possible New Tick Species in his Nose

In June 2012 Tony Goldberg, associate director for research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, returned from one of his frequent trips to Kibale National Park, an […]