entomology News Archive
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
CBC Manitoba: Talking Bugs: What’s Emerging This Season and How to Protect Them
May 8, 2025 —
Talking Bugs: What's Emerging This Season and How to Protect Them
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
CTV Winnipeg: Manitoba tick season is here. How to protect yourself from the pesky pests
May 5, 2025 —
Manitoba tick season is here. How to protect yourself from the pesky pests
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
CBC Manitoba: Canadian honey farmers fear sting of China’s canola tariffs
April 21, 2025 —
Tariffs could discourage planting of canola, a food source for bees
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
NOW Toronto: GTA woman finds cockroach floating in her Tim Hortons coffee, bug expert warns of health risks
March 18, 2025 —
An entomology professor says that cockroaches carry several gastrointestinal illnesses after a Markham woman discovered one in her iced coffee from Tim Hortons.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Cattle Country: University of Manitoba entomologists are investigating bovine anaplasmosis transmission in cattle
March 1, 2025 —
Horse flies and deer flies, commonly known as bulldogs, belong to a family of biting flies named Tabanidae. There are thousands of species worldwide, with about 150 in Canada, and approximately 25 different species found in Manitoba.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
New academic staff revitalize Agricultural and Food Sciences
January 1, 2025 —
Seven new academic members joined the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences in 2024
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
FAFS researchers and teachers recognized in 2024
January 1, 2025 —
Members of our Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences community were recognized nationally and internationally in 2024.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Cattle Country: University of Manitoba researchers are exploring perennial cropping strategies to reduce GHG emissions on-farm from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
November 1, 2024 —
The new project is called LEAP (Leveraging Ecosystems to transform Agriculture on the Prairies) and Manitoba Beef Producers are among several industry partners supporting the initiative.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
The Manitoban: The hidden world of bees and wasps
October 11, 2024 —
U of M researcher discovers, describes and documents insect species.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Cattle Country: New research will enable greater use of cover crops on the Prairies, including grazing
September 1, 2024 —
Cover crops are important elements in regenerative agriculture, and therefore play an important role in achieving sustainable food production systems.