Author: Raul Villanueva
Planning Unit: Entomology
Major Program: Grains
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
In 2022, The entomology program at the REC-Princeton has three undergraduate students: two from Murray State University and one from the University of Kentucky. Overall, students are asked to help in different projects during summertime. This year, I received a grant to hire an undergraduate student from Murray State University who was trained to work with slugs in our lab in 2021. Based on this work she was the coauthor of a presentation on the Ag-Expo in Owensboro on January 26, 2022, this student carried out experiments with slugs and snails in 2022. She presented a poster (Predation of slugs by carabids, and testing the efficacy of two molluscicides in soybeans), at the 2022 ESA, Vancouver-Canada based on the outcomes of her studies as main author. An undergraduate student from the University of Kentucky was assigned a project to work on her own. Before the end of the season, she wrote an article for the Kentucky Pest News Newsletter (Searching for parasitoids of kudzu bug egg in Kentucky: Year 2). As an educator, I give students the opportunities to work with diverse insect groups, to be responsible of a study and ultimately to publish their results.
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