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Entomology and Plant Pathology

Our Specialties

Many of the projects within the department involve inter-disciplinary activity. Studies include close cooperation and interaction with soil scientists, plant geneticists, horticulturists, veterinarians, and ecologists. For instance, the department has special interest and expertise in alternative methods of insect and disease management such as biological control, resistant cultivars, integrated pest management, and cultural control techniques, to help meet the need for healthful food production without or with reduced use of pesticides. The department also has especially strong programs in soil biology and in fungus-fescue interactions. More specific research specialty information can be found on our faculty list.

If you are a farmer or homeowner having a pest problem please start by calling your UT Agricultural Extension Service County Office/Tennessee County Agricultural Extension Office for more area-specific assistance.

Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)

All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

Apiculture; Bees; Bee Pests; Bee Keeping

Apterygote Insects

Bed Bugs

Biocontrol

Biting flies and ticks

Cattle insect pests

Cicada Web Page

Cotton; Cotton pathogens; Cotton pests

Deer pests

Distance Diagnostics

Dogwood; Dogwood pathogens; Dogwood pests

Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Fescue; Fescue endophyte

Field Crops; Field Crop diseases

Fire ants

Flies

Forages; Forage pests

Fruits; Fruit pests

Hemlock Wooly Adelgid

Home Lawn and Gardens

Horticultural food pathogens

Household Pests

Insect ecology & physiology

Insect pathology

Insect systematics & morphology

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

La Crosse Encephalitis

Lady Beetles

Landscape Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Livestock pest control/Livestock insect pests

Medical entomology

Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) article #1

Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) article #2

Mite control

Mosquitoes; mosquito-borne illnesses

Nematology

Nursery crop pathogens/pests

Ornamentals; Ornamental pests

Parasitic mite control

Pesticide Information

Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP), (formerly called Pesticide Applicator Training (PAT), also referred to as Pesticide Certification Training)

Pesticide Testing Program

Pink eye epidemiology

Plant disease physiology

School Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Seedling disease control

Small Hive Beetle

Soilborne plant pathogens

Southern Plant Diagnostic Network

Soybean; Soybean insects; Soybean diseases

Soybean Aphid Watch 2002

Structural pest control

Tabanidae of Tennessee

Tobacco; Tobacco pathogen/pest control

Urban entomology

Vegetables; Vegetable pathogen/pest control

Veterinary entomology

West Nile Virus

Experiment Station  Extension Service  College of Vet Medicine  College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Updated 03/31/2008