NMSU Entomology Plant Pathology and Weed Science Department

11/11/2025

The Monster Movie Night was a blast! Live critters, movies, popcorn and you guessed it the infamous insect displays. Featuring new light up ones from our graduate student Eva!

10/23/2025

Join us today for the 10th Annual EPPWS Insect Monster Movie Night on October 23rd in the Corbett Center Auditorium. This is a FREE family event with FREE popcorn! We will be showing Ant Bully (6:00pm) and Tremors (7:45pm). See cool arthropod displays and live insects. Doors open at 5:30pm.
We hope to see everyone there! 😀🐜🐞🦋

10/17/2025

Join us for the 10th Annual EPPWS Insect Monster Movie Night on October 23rd in the Corbett Center Auditorium. This is a free event with free popcorn! We will be showing Ant Bully (6:00pm) and Tremors (7:45pm). See cool arthropod displays and live insects. Doors open at 5:30pm.

We hope to see everyone there! 😀🐜🐞🦋

10/13/2025

New Mexico State University students in Soum Sanogo’s Diagnosing Plant Disorders class will host a free plant diagnosis clinic for community members Monday, Oct. 20, at the Fabián García Research Center.

DATE: Oct. 13, 2025 WRITER: Carlos Andres López, 575-646-1955, carlopez@nmsu.edu SOURCE: Soum Sanogo, 575-640-6484, ssanogo@nmsu.edu   New Mexico State University students will host a free plant diagnosis clinic from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, at the Fabián García Research Center, 113 ...

10/07/2025

EPPWS Ice Cream Social Fall 2025!

Always a blast to enjoy some cold treats, see some creepy critters and mingle! 🦋🦗🪳🍦

10/07/2025

We had a lot of fun at the STEM AG Career Fair Day AgXplorer! Held at the Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds.

Dr. Ramirez, Dr. Joanie King, Ivan Tellez and two of our awesome PhD students, Ram Singh Insa and Lohith Siva Venkata Ramakrishna Koyya, joined together to showcase the exciting world of entomology and plant sciences!

Students got a close-up look at different critters and plants, sparking curiosity and conversations about careers in agriculture and STEM. 🐜🪳🪴🌿

09/29/2025

Another group of awesome students but from Dr. Lehnhoffs EPWs 1110 course Applied Biology! First image: Students showing off their fields finds that got out in the Alfalfa! Second image: students measuring plants as part of their science experiment 🪰🐜🪳🦟🦗🌱🌿🌾

09/29/2025

Students from Dr. Lehnhoff's EPWS 560 practicing plot setup for invasive plant monitoring! In the second image the students are monitoring invasive plants at the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center! 🌿🍃🪴🌾

09/15/2025

Dr. Bundy is a Professor of Entomology in the EPPWS Department and Director of NMSU Arthropod Museum. If you haven't already taken his Human, Insects and the Environment class you definitely should. Mention this class and you are bound to know someone who has due to its popularity. This semester alone he has 700 students in this class!

https://newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/faculty-focus--scott-bundy--college-of-agricultural--consumer-and-environmental-sciences/s/6289f16e-a67d-4d06-bf32-328b3017b91a?cat=news|headlines-by-college

Scott Bundy’s career at NMSU started in 2000. He is a professor of entomology in the Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and W**d Science in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and...

09/12/2025

Aggie Street Festival Fall 2025 was a blast! Tons of booths from different programs, leather branding, even homemade ice cream and lemonade! Music and what better than live insects? The Entomology Club joined EPPW's Dept. Head Dr. Ricardo Ramirez along with Professor of Fungal Plant Pathology Dr. Soum Sanogo. Some of our new undergraduates in Applied and Agricultural Biology came too! Was great to see you all out there! We even had an appearance by ACES Dean Flores and ACES Associate Dean of Academics Torres 🎉🌿🐜🦋

09/04/2025

We want to give a big welcome to our new faculty member Dr. Caleb Hubbard! We are excited to have you join the department! See below for a message from Dr. Hubbard 😊:

"I’m excited to be joining NMSU and EPPWS as an Assistant Professor of Urban Entomology!
I am coming from the University of California, Riverside, where my research focused on insect behavior and sustainable pest management in agricultural systems.
At NMSU, my research program will expand on this work by integrating insect behavior, genetics, and applied pest management techniques to address challenges in urban environments, with a focus on how arthropods adapt to urbanizing landscapes and the spillover between urban, peri-urban, and agricultural systems.
Outside of work, I’m an avid outdoors enthusiast, ultrarunner, and proud dog parent of three (please ask to see pictures ). I’m thrilled to start this new chapter and look forward to teaching and mentoring the next generation of scientists here at NMSU."

08/29/2025

EPPWS Students are learning to sweep net as a method of insect sampling in an alfalfa field at NMSU's Leyendecker Plant Sciences Research Center! 🙂🦋

Pictured: Dr. Lehnhoff's EPWS 1110 Class