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PhD student Kendi Muthomi MSc making hot chilli thrips field work look effortless!

Exhibit Spotlight 🧑‍🔬 Live Lab Visitors can interact with entomologists, students & volunteers! July 8-14: Liburd Lab = crop pests Science Up Close: Incredible Insects Check our Live Lab schedule 👇 In collaboration with UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology 🐞 Exhibit info: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/incre…

Our lab is hosting the Science Up Close: Incredible Insects exhibit at the Florida Museum this week! 🐞Please visit our booths to learn more about our research and see some cool bugs! 🐛

Beautiful artworks made by our budding entomologists~ 🐜 Come learn how to pin at our exhibit at the Florida Museum

I have successfully completed my 2024 field research I had FOUR field trials: efficacy (12 pesticides), susceptibility (6 🫐 cultivars), chemical ecology (semiochemicals), and monitoring (traps). I woke up very early, took breakfast on the move, drove to the field 3-4 times a

The updated and revised 2024 Florida Blueberry Integrated Pest Management Guide is now available from UF/IFAS #blueberry edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/HS… Florida Blueberry Growers Association Oscar Liburd Philip Harmon Blueberry Breeding 🫐 UF IFAS Solutions UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology @uf

The beginning of squash season. We have a lot of hard work ahead!

Our team went out to spray pesticide treatments for Joey’s squash field and luckily the plants are looking excellent despite this past hurricane.

Great squash and eggplant harvest from Joey’s field!

Meet the newest addition to the Liburd Lab, Monique Raymond! Monique came to us from New Hampshire and is starting her PhD with us looking at the management of the Southern Red Mite in blueberries here in Florida. Go Monique! 🥳

The Liburd Lab hosted coffee hour for the department and it was great to catch up with our colleagues. Thank you for everyone who came!

We would like to congratulate the entomology games group from UF and our very own Joey Gonsiorek for winning the entomology games at this year’s SEB meeting. We’ll see you all at ESA this year in Portland!

Congratulations to our lovely Stella Ruber for winning first place in the MS poster competition at this year’s SEB meeting! 🥳🎉

Good day for our lab. Hellenah Khunga won the first place of the Master 10-min talk presentation, and I was honored to receive the Award for excellence in Integrated Pest Management at the SouthEastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America. Entomological Society of America UF IFAS NFREC

We would love to welcome Dr. Jasleen Kaur to the liburd lab as our new postdoctoral associate! Her research will focus on developing sustainable solutions for invasive species management, particularly chilli thrips in blueberry orchards. 🫐 Welcome Dr. Kaur!

Thank you to Purdue Entomology for inviting me to give a seminar talk on my lab’s work UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology: “Application of Cultural Techniques and Biological Control Tactics to Manage Agricultural Pest Populations”. It was a great turnout with insightful questions and discussion.

Soon-to-be PhD student Arden Lambert has just wrapped up a busy field season working with spotted wing drosophila in blueberries. Her work focused on testing innovative, sustainable strategies to manage this invasive pest and support healthier crops for growers.

I am so excited to announce my admission to the University of Florida PhD program under Dr. Oscar Liburd in the Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM lab. I would also like to thank the Entomology and Nematology department for awarding me a matching teaching assistantship!

🎉 Please join us in congratulating our very own Kendi Muthomi MSc on receiving the Marjorie A. Hoy Graduate Award for Molecular Entomology this Spring! This prestigious recognition celebrates excellence in research. Well done, Kendi – we’re proud of you! 👏🐛🔬

Congratulations to our own Stella for successfully presenting an excellent proposal seminar 👏🎉