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This Project Grant award, titled "INSECT: Insects for a Sustainable Environment and Circular Bioeconomy", is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Global Centers Program under CFDA 47.079 - Office of International Science and Engineering. The $1,999,915 award, granted on May 1, 2025, supports a 3-year interdisciplinary research initiative to develop sustainable solutions for feed and food production rooted in insect-based biomanufacturing practices. The project aims to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $216,700.00 to North Carolina State University to advance research on integrated pest management, genetic control technology, surveillance technology, and regulatory entomology for several invasive insect species. The key activities include supporting the evaluation of...

The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $220,786 project grant to The University of Iowa for collaborative research using herbivorous insect genomes for crop tracking. The three-year award runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The University of Iowa will utilize the funding to conduct research leveraging insect genomics to advance understanding of crop pest...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology will fund research at Stanford University to analyze sediment DNA from lake cores in California in order to reconstruct over 1,200 years of insect diversity change. The researchers will employ sedimentary DNA techniques and high-throughput sequencing to characterize insect diversity over time. They will also assemble data on land use change, climate change, and pesticide applications to link...

This award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074, provides $1,335,651 to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct research on speciation with gene flow in a pair of pine-feeding insect species. The project aims to understand how some species can maintain genetic differences despite ongoing gene exchange. Key research activities include: Larval diet manipulations and transcriptome analyses to quantify reproductive isolation and...

This $540,601 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports increasing the scientific capacity and educational/outreach impact of the Cornell University Insect Collection. Key activities include moving fixed insect cabinets to a compact shelving system, expanding collection capacity. Targeted areas will be carefully curated and digitized. An undergraduate training program will prepare the next generation of entomologists skilled in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research and training at the University of Florida (UF) to revise the taxonomy and document the interactions of pinhole borer beetles and their symbiotic fungi. The $900,006 award will fund a comprehensive 4-year effort to identify, classify, and describe these understudied wood-boring organisms, which can become pests. The project will use DNA sequencing, microscopy, and...

Grant Award Summary The University of Massachusetts received a $458,380 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This award supports the development of biological control methods to manage the invasive Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), which has spread from initial detection in...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $164,954.99 Project Grant through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant aims to identify novel insecticidal targets that disrupt the insect ecdysis (molting) process, with a focus on the role of acetylcholine signaling in regulating pupal ecdysis across major agricultural pest orders. The project will employ multiple agonists and...

Lepidext, Inc. was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to further develop an agent with potential to actively suppress populations of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) resistant pest insects. The SBIR/STTR programs support scientific excellence and technological innovation through federal...